["J. A. Evans."—The name of the calsolareous1 plant sent by you is identified by Baron von Mueller as the Salitornia arbusoula.2 It is indigenous on our coasts, and also on saline flats in the interior. This plant is allied to the British Saltmarsh-Samphire, which is sometimes also with other calsolareous plants used for the production of soda. These plants help to fix mud on the coasts so that it is not washed away by the tides. The Salicornias are too saline for serving as fodder plants.]
Salicornia
Salitornia arbusoula
Typesetter's error for salsolaceous?
Typesetter's error for Salicornia arbuscula?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 3 August 1895, p. 197. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 26 August 1895 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-07-26,” 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