24/9/81
Erlauben Sie mir, geehrter Herr Professor, Sie zu befragen, ob Sie über Pleurophascum grandiglobum, seit Ihre Notiz darüber in Trimen's journal erschien, weiter Bericht erstattet haben? Ich frage an, da ich gern eine vollständige Liste der Cryptogamen Australiens als Anhang zum 11tn Bande meiner Fragmenta liefern möchte.
Ich habe seit sehr langer Zeit nicht mehr von Ihnen gehört, u so würden bei Ihnen meine neuern Schriften wohl nur sehr unvollständig vorhanden sein. Ich würde gern an Ihre Soc. Fennica mancherlei senden, wenn ich wüsste, was Sie besitzen und was Ihnen willkommen wäre für die Gesellschaft.
Sind Sie in Ihrem Vorsatz beharrt, eine neue generalogie der Moose zu liefern. Etwas derartiges thut recht Noth, bei dem Schwanken der Gattungs-Charactere in der Moos-Literatur.
Sie ehrend und Ihnen Alles Gute wünschend
Ferd. von Mueller.
24 September 1881.
Permit me, esteemed Professor, to ask you, whether you have published further notes on Pleurophascum grandiglobum since your notice on it in Trimen's journal?1 I ask, because I want to provide a complete list of the Australian cryptogams as a supplement to the 11th volume of my Fragmenta.2
I have not heard from you for a very long time, so you would probably have my more recent publications only very incompletely. I should like to send to your Soc. Fennica this and that, if I knew what you have and what would be welcome to the Society.
Have you remained firm in your resolution to publish a new generalogy3 of the mosses? Something of the kind is much needed, with the fluctuations in the generic characters in moss literature.
Respectfully wishing you all the best,
Ferd. von Mueller.
Pleurophascum grandiglobum
Lindberg (1875). Lindberg noted in his paper that the new moss, which had been collected by Robert Johnston near the Picton River in Tasmania, had come to him from M. 'This moss', he declared, 'is of the highest importance' on account of its remarkable structure that he went on to describe.
Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. See B81.13.12, which included (pp. 45-52) a section on mosses prepared by Eduard Hampe. Pleurophascum grandiglobum was included (p. 109) in a list of additions to Hampe's list that M himself assembled.
= an account of the genera? The existing work that M had in mind may have been Jaeger & Sauerbeck (1870-9). Lindberg never published a new listing.
Please cite as “FVM-81-09-24,” 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