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96.07.00d

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

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents', Leader (Melbourne), 18 July 1896, p. 9.
[ Name of Plant .— G. M'K., Poowong.
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Vic.
— The specimen received is one of the buttercups,
Ranunculus muricatus

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. Those kinds of plants are all acrid, though the present one less so than many others. This species, says Baron von Mueller, likes wet soil, so that draining places at which it occurs will impede its growth, should it become necessary to exterminate the plant.]
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See also M to Leader, July 1896 (in this edition as 96-07-00c), an answer to another correspondent printed on the same page.