["Grazier"(Stratford1).-The specimen of grass you send is identified by Baron Von Mueller as Sporobolus elongatus. It is a native of Victoria and some other parts of Australia. It is perennial, and resists drought and heat. Bushmen have given it the name of rat-tail grass. It is useful for binding the soil on embankments, but is of so tough a nature that it will pull out the teeth of old ewes that graze on it.]
Sporobolus elongatus
Vic?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 4 May 1894, p. 757. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 26 April 1894 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-04-26b,” 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