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95.02.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1895-02 [95.02.00b]. 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/1890-6/1895/95-02-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents' Leader, 2 March 1895, p. 9. To have been published on 2 March, M's response must have been prepared no later than February1895, and it is so dated.
[Specimen of Plant .— Pine Hill, Framlingham.
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Vic.
—The yellow flowering herb sent is, Baron von Mueller reports, systematically known as
Lotus tenuifolius

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(also known an L. tenuis). It is allied to the spurious trefoil of Britain, L. cornionlatus,
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Typesetter's error for Lotus corniculatus?
which became naturalised on moist places also in Australia long ago. The L. tenuifolius is smaller in foliage but otherwise also a good meadow plant, and is particularly suited for brackish land as well, an advantage not to be derived from many other pasture plants readily available.]