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96.09.00c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-09 [96.09.00c]. 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/1890-6/1896/96-09-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Answers to correspondents’, Leader, 12 September 1896, p. 13.
[Specimens of Plant .— Subscriber, Yarroweyah
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Vic., west of Cobram.
—The specimens are only in incipient flower, and without the lower leaves, and, as among the numerous wild plants of the Brassiva
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Journalist's error for Brassica?
tribe, the full distinction can be only made from the fruit. It will be better, Baron von Mueller suggests, to wait till fruits are maturing some weeks hence, and send again, when the exact specific name can be made out. Sheep will browse on these sorts of plants, but on agricultural lands these herbs can become molesting weeds.]