[Weed.—J. Edola—"Corowa."-The perennial herb which you send is identified by Baron von Mueller as a sample of the Stemodia Morgania. It is an exclusively Australian plant, but restricted to distant inland regions. It belongs to a tribe of plants which contain no real poison principles; but this particular herb is of very disagreeable bitterness, and thus avoided by pasture animals. Breaking up the ground repeatedly and harrowing out the roots would be advisable, also then sowing the seeds of strong perennial grasses and fodder herbs—particularly such as are known to thrive in the hot and dry inland tracts of country—would tend to keep this and other obtrusive weeds under and simultaneously enrich the pastures.]
Stemodia Morgania
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 3 March 1894, p. 361. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 23 March 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-94-02-23a,” 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