[Cookshin Grass.— Subscriber, Melbourne.— The grass sent is the Cookshin grass, Pamium Rus Galli.1 It has no similarity to what is here called Buffalo Grass, nor to what in America passes under that name. It is a native of eastern countries in the northern hemisphere, Baron Von Mueller states, and an excellent grass for nutritiveness, and sought with avidity by pasture animals, seeding freely and also springing up with ease from the dropped seeds where some slight humidity exists, and where not prevented to get a footing by a dense sward of pasture plants.]
Pamium Rus Galli
Journalist's errors for Cockshin grass and Panicum crus-galli?
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Farm. Answers to correspondents', Leader, 8 February 1896, p. 5. Assuming that M's reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 31 January 1896 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-96-01-31,” 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