[" W.A.H."—The weed forwarded has been identified by Baron von Mueller as the Gilia Squarrosa,1 which is indigenous to California. It is difficult to get rid of, but it can be overpowered by any strong growth of vegetation. Hoeing it down before seeding will help to annihilate it.]
Gilia Squarrosa
A synonym of Navarretia squarrosa, the name M had noted it as in his list of 'Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names', in B88.11.02.
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 M as soon as they arrived, then dealt with as individual replies.
Please cite as “FVM-96-02-14d,” 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