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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader   [July 1896]

[Name of Plant. —Reader, Melbourne.— Your plant is a so called buttercup, Ranunculus muricatus, a native of the countries at and near the Mediterranean sea, but which casually got established here as immigrated. All these sorts of plants, says Baron von Mueller, are more or less acrid, so that they should not be allowed to occupy prominently any pasture ground. The R. muricartus likes wet places, which could in many cases be drained when this herb would disappear. It is of short individual duration, but of easy dissemination.]1

Ranunculus muricatus

1

See also M to the Leader, July 1896 (in this edition as 96-07-00d), an answer to another correspondent printed on the same page.

2

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents', Leader (Melbourne), 18 July 1896, p. 9.

Please cite as “FVM-96-07-00c,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/96-07-00c