18/2/80
Herewith, dear Mr Bailey, I send you from the "Grevillea" a reprint, concerning fungi, chiefly from poor Mons. Thozets & Mr OShanesy's collections.1 Should you have this print already, then please return it.
In the "Grevillea" of Dec. 1879 a number of Australian Fungi are mentioned along with Berggren's New Zealand species, but they are all from the vicinity of Port Phillip,2 and you require — if I remember rightly — only the QL.3 & N.S.W. species From Armits northern collection are named:
Polyporus Armitii Kalchbrenner. (the name, given by me, was preoccupied lately)
Hexagona erinigera, Fries
Podaxon pistillare, Fries
Lentinus subnudus Berk.
Stereum nitidulum Berk
Agaricus silenus B&B.
Xylaria hypoxylon, Fries4
From various parts of Queensland & New South Wales are mentioned in 1878 (in the Ratisbon Bot. Zeitung)5
Agaricus sapineus, Fries.
Lenzites Palisotii, Fries.
Polyporus rimosus, Berkeley.
P. flavus, Junghuhn.
P. fulvus, Fries.
P. Biretum, Kalchbrenner
Stereum striatum, Fries.
Stereum luteo-badium Fries.
Cladoderris australis Kalchbrenner
Hymenochaete rigidula Berkeley
Xylaria tabacina, Kich.6
Meliola Tetracerae F.v Mueller & Thümen
Puccinea straminis, Fuck.
P. Chondrillae, Corda.
Sorosporium Eriachenis7 Thuemen
Bispora monilioides Corda
Sporotrichum densum Link
Mr Robertson has not yet applied to me about your manuscript on ferns;8 if he does I will be happy to support your literary efforts, so far as my recommendations go; but with exception of one single lecture of mine, he has never undertaken the print of any works of mine.9
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Pastor Kalchbrenner has sent the msc of many more Fungi recently to Cooke
The Dicksonia from Frasers Island10 got among the unsorted (laid aside) accumulated additional collections. I have had lately no leisure to insert any; so it will take me some time to find it. I still believe that it it like the one from Bellenden Ker Mountains11 namely Dicksonia Youngiae (D. squarrosa var?)
Best thanks to Dr Bancroft for his kind offer of the bark of Alstonia; I will see to this & write further on the subjec[t.]12 It seems, that Mr Moore engaged a Mr Weber for his Museum lately;13 he is to me a stranger.
Agaricus sapineus
Agaricus silenus
Alstonia
Bispora monilioides
Cladoderris australis
Dicksonia squarrosa
Dicksonia Youngiae
Hexagona erinigera
Hymenochaete rigidula
Lentinus subnudus
Lenzites Palisotii
Meliola Tetracerae
Podaxon pistillare
Polyporus Armitii
Polyporus Biretum
Polyporus flavus
Polyporus fulvus
Polyporus rimosus
Puccinia Chondrillae
Puccinea straminis
Sorosporium Eriachenis
Sporotrichum densum
Stereum luteo-badium
Stereum nitidulum
Stereum striatum
Xylaria hypoxylon
Xylaria tabacina
Thümen (1875).
Cooke (1879). Together with part of Berggren's collection of NZ fungi assembled in 1874-5, Cooke listed 'a few species collected at the same time on the "Dividing range" in the north of Melbourne'. Sven Berggren
Qld.
Each name in this list has been ticked in the margin.
Thümen (1878).
Each name in the list, to this point, except Hymenochaete rigidula Berkeley, has been ticked in the margin, presumably by Bailey.
S. eriachnei?
Presumably the work eventually published by Gordon & Gotch, not Robertson, as Bailey (1881).
B77.13.05.
Fraser Island, Qld.
Qld.
Word partly obscured by binding tape.
See C. Moore to M, 19 February 1880.
Please cite as “FVM-80-02-18a,” 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