[Clover.—" J.F."—Baron von Mueller identifies your specimen as the Trifolium subterraneum, a native of the countries at the Mediterranean Sea. Although it is a small plant it holds fairly long out in the season, and as it seems to spread easily on its own accord it will likely prove of some pastoral value, on poor ground particularly. This little clover is also recorded from the most southern parts of England as perhaps indigenous. It received its specific name because in its proneness it is apt to bury its flower headlets in the ground when the seeds are ripening.]
Trifolium subterraneum
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 18 November 1893, p. 889. Assuming that M's letter would have been published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 10 November 1893 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-93-11-10a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on