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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader   [Feb 1895]

[Specimen of Plant.— Pine Hill, Framlingham.1 —The yellow flowering herb sent is, Baron von Mueller reports, systematically known as Lotus tenuifolius (also known an L. tenuis). It is allied to the spurious trefoil of Britain, L. cornionlatus,2 which became naturalised on moist places also in Australia long ago. The L. tenuifolius is smaller in foliage but otherwise also a good meadow plant, and is particularly suited for brackish land as well, an advantage not to be derived from many other pasture plants readily available.]

Lotus cornionlatus

Lotus tenuifolius

Lotus tenuis

1

Vic.

2

Typesetter's error for Lotus corniculatus?

3

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents' Leader, 2 March 1895, p. 9. To have been published on 2 March, M's response must have been prepared no later than February1895, and it is so dated.

Please cite as “FVM-95-02-00b,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-02-00b