[Weeds.—" Somerville Bros." (Sandford).—Baron von Mueller kindly informs us that one of the plants, received as the "thorn apple" is a stramony, detura1 stramonium, and indigenous to America, but now widely distributed over the Globe. He saw it wild at St. Vincent's Gulf, S.A., as far back as 1847. The other plant is the tree tobacco nicotiana glauca, a native of the La Plata States. Both these plants are most certainly poisonous, and should not be allowed to invade any pastures.]
Detura stramonium
Nicotiana glauca
Typesetter's error for Datura?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 28 April 1894, p. 713. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 20 April 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-94-04-20a,” 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