["J.H.T."—"The blue flowering vetch sent by you some few days ago along with the lucerne is, Baron von Mueller says, the vicia villosa, a native of middle and south Europe and West Asia. It is not perennial, like two or three allied species, but much liked for fodder, particularly in Spain and Italy. It is also praised as a bee plant. This vetch is apt to grow among cereal and other plants just as here found among sanfoin1].
Vicia villosa
sainfoin? Each spelling occurs in M manuscript letters.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 22 February 1896, p. 341. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 14 February as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
There are more notes from M in the same column; they are treated as separate communications in this edition as the specimens may have been sent to him as soon as they arrived, then dealt with as individual replies.
Please cite as “FVM-96-02-14c,” 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