["S. Ewing."—Baron Sir F. von Mueller identifies the plant you send as Euphorbia Drummondi, a native plant that has done much mischief among pasture animals, particularly in the north-west region of Victoria. Land overrun with this weed should be broken up and sown with strong perennial grasses.]
Euphorbia Drummondi
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 15 June 1895, p. 1109. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 7 June 1895 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent
Please cite as “FVM-95-06-07c,” 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