To Miles Berkeley   5 August 1878

5/8/78.

 

It is a long time, reverend & dear Sir, since I have heard of you; but I anticipate that your attention in spare-hours is so absorbed in your favorite studies, as to leave but little time for correspondence. I have now however to send you an apparently undescribed Cordyceps, which under our united authority might obtain the name C. Meneristidis, it occurring on the larva & pupa of Meneristes laticollis. It is from the vicinity of this city, but rare. Let me hope that your glorious work proceeds in serene happiness of a long evening of your labourious day of life.

Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Have you time to give to this interesting species publicity at an early date, should it prove new?1

 

Cordyceps Meneristidis

 
1
Berkeley illustrated the specimen and named it Cordyceps meneristidis with his and M’s joint authority in M.J.B. [Berkeley] (1878); the description was republished in Bulletin de la société botanique de France, vol. 25, 'Revue bibliographique', p. 187.

Please cite as “FVM-78-08-05a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-08-05a