["Weeds" (Darnum).—One of the plants you send Baron von Mueller identifies as the Cassinia aruleata,1 a shrub of South-Eastern Australia with white flowers. It is disliked by stock, but is not really hurtful. The other plant is the Polygonum hydropiper, the British water-pepper, which has found its way over a large portion of the surface of the earth. It is of excessive peppery aridity, and is avoided by stock. It is of short duration individually, but of easy dissemination. It should be got rid of. Formerly this plant was renowned for medicinal use.]
Cassinia aruleata
Polygonum hydropiper
Typesetter's error for Cassinia aculeata?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 16 March 1895, p. 185. This is the third of three responses provided by M that appeared in the same issue; there may have been a single letter containing all three reports, but as it is likely that specimens were forwarded to M as they arrived at the newspaper office, they are treated separately in this edition. However, assuming that the replies would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, they are dated to 8 March 1895 as the likely earliest date they would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-03-08d,” 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