["G.T." (Raebourne)1—Baron von Mueller informs us that the shrub sent is an Eremophila, but as no flowers are on the small branchlet forwarded the exact name of the species cannot yet be made out. The genus comprises about 70 species. On several occasions Baron Mueller says he has received specimens of Eremophila with a view of eliciting whether these plants are poisonous, which is quite possible, although in no instance has deleterious effects yet been traced. Baron Mueller advises that an experiment be made at Hammersley Station in feeding a calf or a sheep for some time exclusively with foliage of the suspected plant. By these means the question would be clearly settled, and the post-mortem appearances might indicate remedies.]
Eremophila
Typesetter's error for Roebourne, a town in the Pilbara region of WA, where the Hamersley pastoral run is also located.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 7 July 1894, p. 5. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 29 June 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent
Please cite as “FVM-94-06-29a,” 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