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86.03.00a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Weekly Times, 1886-03 [86.03.00a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1880-9/1886/86-03-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 19, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Weekly times, 6 March 1886, Farmers gazette supplement, p. 1 (B86.03.06). It is introduced by Specimen of Weed. — F., Glenarona, near Pyalong. — Baron von Mueller furnishes the following reply:—'.
The plant sent from Pyalong
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Vic.
is the true
Madia sativa

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, which immigrated here many years ago. It probably came among straw, weed for packing, etc., and is a native of the west coast of America, where it is very common. Stock are not fond of this or any other variety of the Madia, but if want of feed drives them to consume strong and rank-scented weeds flesh and milk would be affected. There is only one way to suppress herbs that seed copiously, and that is to scarify or plough the ground, and to sow it with strong perennial grasses and fodder herb, which would overpower this and most other noxious plants.