[" Subscriber" (Casterton1).—Baron Sir F. von Mueller identifies the plant you send as the Lobelia pratioides, and like all other species of that genus this one is poisonous. If the plant does not increase largely it is not dangerous, but if it becomes abundant and other feed is scarce stock are apt to eat sufficient of it to kill. Though small it is perennial and should be destroyed.]
Lobelia pratioides
Vic.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 23 November 1895, p. 973. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 15 November 1895 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-95-11-15a,” 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