The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [Name of Plant ¶ . —Reader, Melbourne.— Your plant is a so called buttercup, Ranunculus muricatus, a native of the countries at and near the Mediterranean sea, but which casually got established here ...

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96.07.00c

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Ranunculus muricatus
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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-07 [96.07.00c]. 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/1890-6/1896/96-07-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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

[Name of Plant . —Reader, Melbourne.— Your plant is a so called buttercup, , a native of the countries at and near the Mediterranean sea, but which casually got established here as immigrated. All these sorts of plants, says Baron von Mueller, are more or less acrid, so that they should not be allowed to occupy prominently any pasture ground. The R. muricartus likes wet places, which could in many cases be drained when this herb would disappear. It is of short individual duration, but of easy dissemination.]

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