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87.03.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Weekly Times, 1887-03 [87.03.00b]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-03-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents', Weekly times, 19 March 1887, Farmers gazette supplement, p. 1.
[Specimen of Plants . — J. J. W., Kaniva.
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Vic.
—The specimen forwarded is
Templetonia Muelleri

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. Eight specimens
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species?
of Templetonia are now known, all Australian, but as yet no poison cases traceable to any of them have come under notice. Nevertheless, it is not at all improbable that these plants are injurious and Baron Von Mueller advises that our correspondent, as an experiment, should tether a calf or sheep on a spot where the Templetonia is growing for a day or two, whereby its properties, poisonous or other wise, could easily be detected.]