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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader   [July 1896]

[Name of Plant.— G. M'K., Poowong.1— The specimen received is one of the buttercups, Ranunculus muricatus. Those kinds of plants are all acrid, though the present one less so than many others. This species, says Baron von Mueller, likes wet soil, so that draining places at which it occurs will impede its growth, should it become necessary to exterminate the plant.]2

Ranunculus muricatus

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Vic.

2

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

3

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

Please cite as “FVM-96-07-00d,” 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/96-07-00d