To Ada Armytage   27 April 1896

S. Yarra,1 27/4/96

 

When I receive, dear Miss Armytage, kind letters from Ladies, which is not very often, I feel always much cheered, and thus I was also particularly the case when I received2 your thoughtful communication,3 and the grass seeds as I on several occasions, when I called at Como,4 you all were out or absent in the country. For some few months I shall be overpowered with professional work in my Department, but after that time I hope to call again on the few friends which I have. Perhaps next summer the Mitchell-Grass will be bearing grains, the last season having been one of drought through most parts of Australia5 But your mothers N. Queensland's Station6 suffered less, as it is, I believe within the reach of the tropic summer-rains. I should like very much to know, whether the gigantic annual Teosinte Grass of Mexico and the creeping Wonder-grass Coapim of W. Africa and the Burr Trefoils without burrs from Italy succeeded & become naturalized on the station.

Regardfully yrs

Ferd von Mueller

 

My best thanks for the fruiting specimens of the Mitchell-grass (Astrebla elymoides[)] another species occurs in N. QL7 with denser spike

 

Astrebla elymoides

Melbourne.
particularly glad to receive changed by M to particularly the case when I received.
Letter not found.
The Armytage family home in South Yarra, Vic.
See also M to C. Armytage, 20 April 1895.
Afton Downs, near Hughenden, Qld.
North Qld.

Please cite as “FVM-96-04-27,” 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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/96-04-27