25/6/94
In reply to your letter of the 22 June,1 dear Mr Potts, let me say, that the feeding of cattle on the Callitris cupressiformis can for any length of time not be advisable, probably not even for a short period, as the foliage would be sure to act diuretically and cause likely other and still more severe mischief. It must be poor pasture-ground where cattle resort to feeding on coniferous trees After the night-frosts I could send you the roots of the Wonder-Grass, Panicum spectabile, which ought to furnish a splendid summer grass in your district I introduced it into Australia from W. Africa.
Do you as a pharmacist ever collect native plants? If so, I would advise making in your region a speciality of floating and submerged plants, which there have not yet been sufficiently searched for If you send of dried specimens a duplicate numbered set, I will send you the names
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Callitris cupressiformis
Panicum spectabile
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Please cite as “FVM-94-06-25,” 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