[" LangIey."—The grass you forwarded has been identified by Baron von Mueller as the Penisetum1 villosum, an African plant which is not only pretty as a garden plant, but also at some pastural value, as it is drought-resisting and would hold out through the year. It forms large tufts, with rather tender foliage.]
Penisetum villosum
Pennisetum?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 22 June 1895, p. 1187. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 14 June 1895 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-06-14b,” 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