["Subscriber " (Kerang).—1. The sorghum, of which seed-sprig is sent, Baron von Mueller informs us, is the "black sorghum," a variety of the ordinary tall sorghum. As a variety it is called Andropogon niger, or Sorghum nigrum scientifically. 2. The grass is a species of Panicum, and should prove an excellent fodder grass. Baron Mueller would like to know, as the genus Panicum contains hundreds of species, whether it was found wild there or whether it was grown from introduced seed. Some of the Australian species are closely akin to foreign sorts.]
Andropogon niger
Sorghum nigrum
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Yeoman. Answers to correspondents', Australasian (Melbourne), 23 May 1896, p. 965. Assuming that the reply would be published in the next available issue in this weekly newspaper, it is dated to 15 May 1896 as the likely earliest date it would have been sent.
Please cite as “FVM-96-05-15,” 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