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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Agricultural Bureau of South Australia, 1889-02 [89.02.00a]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-02-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Agricultural Bureau. Weeds', a report of the general meeting of the Bureau held on 18 February 1889, South Australian register , 19 February 1889, p. 7. It is dated to early February as the latest date that it could have been sent to have been reported at that meeting.
[ Baron von Mueller wrote to the effect that the weed which came from Glen Osmond
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SA.
is
Linaria Elatine

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, a native mainly of the countries on the Mediterranean Sea, but extending to the south of England and Ireland as a supposed indigenous plant. It was too bitter to be consumed by pasture animals, but it had no poisonous properties. Baron von Mueller also identified two samples of thistle as the
Kentrophyllum lanatum

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, and the Centauria
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Typesetter's error for Centaurea?
calcitrapa. These thistles were originally imported from the Mediterranean Coast. They now grow wild in South Australia, and are a great nuisance. The "Star" thistle referred to in the Parliamentary Act is the first-named thistle, but the
Centauria caltcitrapa

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calcitrapa?
is the real "Star" thistle.]