[" Thos. Skene."-The name of your plant, Baron Sir F. von Mueller informs us, is Lactuca saligna, the slender wild lettuce, a native of the milder regions of Europe and also of Northern Africa and Western Asia. Although a plant of short duration, it is of easy dissemination. It seems free of the noxious properties of some other sorts of wild lettuces, as it is occasionally used in South Europe for salad.]
Lactuca saligna
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 20 January 1894, p. 97. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 12 January 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-94-01-12b,” 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