To Miles Berkeley   18 September 1879

18/9/79.

Allow me to ask you, rev & dear Sir, whether you have published anywhere the Marasmius equicrinis, and if so, would it be possible to get a copy of the diagnosis?¹ The only fruit-sample is in your possession, and I hope you will have a chance to get it kindly figured. It is with great reluctance, that I trouble you, as at your venerable age your time should not be encroached on by disturbing calls. Still I am eager to give gradually some special attention to Australian Mycology, and wish therefore to have the benefit of a good start from so grand a master as yourself.

I do not know, whether you attach the slightest value to any of my works, as I have worked never on Cryptogams to any extent, unless on filices. But if my enlarged English edition of Wittstein’s Chemistry of plants,² my new publication on the plants of Victoria,³ my fragmenta, my Eucalyptus Atlas⁴ and my new Indian Edition of Utilitarian select plants⁵ should be worthy of your acceptance, I would feel it a privilege to send them to you.

With regardful & grateful remembrance your

Ferd. von Mueller

Let me trust, that providence will grant you health and strength to proceed long yet on your glorious path, to render known the mycologic wonders of the creation.

Marasmius equicrinis