"Veritas" (Mundara1).—The small weed you send is identified by Baron von Mueller as an Amarantus, allied to the British Amarantus blitum. The plant is an immigrant here, and is harmless unless the small prickles should cause any inconvenience to stock.]
Amarantus blitum
Grazing property, c. 35 km north of Kaniva, Vic.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 11 April 1896, p. 677. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 3 April 1896 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-96-04-03b,” 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