["Forty Years' Subscriber."—The plant which you have forwarded has been kindly identified by Baron von Mueller as the grass lily (Romulea Bulbocodium), or a closely allied species from the countries of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a bulb-bearing plant, and therefore not easily eradicated. The leaves are so stringy that when pasture animals consume them balls of fibres are formed in the stomach, from the effects of which the animals not rarely succumb. Turning over the soil and raking out the bulbs is the best remedy for this weed, and subsequently sowing strong-growing grasses on the ground.]
Romulea Bulbocodium
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 21 September 1895, p. 531. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 13 September 1895 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-09-13,” 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