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
B80.02.02, p. 90 mentions the species, with some very brief descriptive notes. Fungi name index (accessed 1 October 2020) cites Berkeley (1881), p. 383, where the name is attributed to M, but not the same collections as cited in B80.02.02.
Wittstein (1878). i.e. B78.06.09.
B79.06.04.
B79.13.11.
B80.13.07.
Please cite as “FVM-79-09-18a,” 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