["I. J. Williams."—The small annual herb which you sent has kindly been identified by Baron von Mueller as the Bartsia latifolia, indigenous to the countries of the Mediterranean Sea. It is not known to possess poisonous properties, but it may be neither wholesome nor nutritive.]
Bartsia latifolia
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 12 October 1895, p. 677. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 4 October 1895 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-10-04b,” 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