From Mordecai Cooke to Ferdinand von Mueller   20 July 1882

Australian Fungi

Schizophyllum commune Fr

Lord Howe's Island

Polyporus sanguineus Fr1

Do

102

Tremella mesenterica Fr2

St Vincents Gulf3

Panus viscidulus B

Western Port V4

Polyporus versicolor Fr

Lord Howe's Island

Polyporus flabelliformis Kl

Do

Hexagona5 rigida B

Do

Polyporus lucidus Fr

Do

Lenzites betulina Fr

Western Port V

Polyporus confluens Fr

Lord Howe's Island

Polyporus angustus B

Do

Stereum purpureum Fr

Clarendon6

Polyporus versicolor Fr

Western Port V

Polyporus lucidus Fr

Daintree River7

Polyporus xanthopus Fr

Do

Polyporus xanthopus Fr

Endeavour River8

Bovista lilacina B & M

Port Jackson9

Hirneola polytricha B10

Daintree River

Polyporus sanguineus Fr11

Do

Polyporus sanguineus Fr

Endeavour River

140

Trametes occidentalis F

Daintree River

Podaxon circinalis Fr12

Barossa Range13

Stereum caperatum B

Lord Howe's Island

Hirneola polytricha B14

Do

Hirneola polytricha B

Mt Dromedary15

150

Sclerotum sp

Illawarra16

Agaricus (Psalliota) arvensis Schff

Do

Agaricus (Lepiola) mastoideus Fr

Barossa Range

146

Trametes lactinea B

Endeavour River

142

Lentinus lecomtei Fr

Daintree River

Trametes sprucei B

Port Jackson

144

Polyporus (Merisma) retiporus Cke

Daintree River17

153

Phallus multicolor B & Br

Illawarra

151

Xylaria sp (conidia)

Do.18

141

Polyporus igniarius Fr ?

Fragment too small to determine

Danitree19 River

143

Polyporus sp (immature)20

Do

Hirneola hispidula M21

Daintree River

Polyporus igniarius Fr

Endeavour River

152

Cyathus Colensoi B

Illawarra

Chroolepus Jolithus Ag

(alga)22

Irpex maximus Fr23

Toor voomba24

Irpex maximus Fr

Clarence River25

Stereum lobatum Kze

Twofold Bay26

Do ————————————

Moonan NSW

Do ————————————

Richmond River27

28

Polyporus confluens Fr

Port Denison28

68

Hymenochaete strigosa B

Richmond River

Hymenochaete crassa Lev

Clarence River

Boletus calopus Fr29

————— Do ————

Trametes colliculosus B30

Port Denison

Daedalea Bowmanni B31

Trinity Bay32

116

Polyporus (Merisma) anthracophilus Cke

Clarence River

Do —————————— Do —————

Rockhampton33

Polyporus (Res)34 atrovinosus Cke

Clarence River

109

Fistulina hepatica Fr35

SW Australia

Merulius corium Fr

Illawarra

Daedalea sinulosa Fr36

Port Denison

Daedalea ambigua B

Clarence River

Polyporus Curreyi B

Do

Agaricus (Pleurotus) mitis Fr37

Port Denison

Trametes pyrrhocreas B (Junior)38

Clarence River

Trametes acuta Cke

Port Denison

73

Do——————————————

Richmond River39

Polyporus oblectans B

Mount Lofty40

Tremella mesenterica R

Do41

144

Agaricus ostreatus Fr

Illawarra42

143

Boletus pachypus Fr

Do

145

Polyporus arcularius Fr

Do

Lycoperdon pusillum B

Port Jackson

129

Morchella semilibera P43

Ovens River44

Polyporus lilacino-gilvus Fr45

Do

137

Morchella conica P

Do

134

Auricularia lobata Fr

Bellenden Ker46

138

Geoglossum glabrum P

Ovens River

132

Agaricus furfuraceus Fr47

Do

130

Agaricus (Nauceria) indeterminable

Do

127

Agaricus (Collybia) eradicatus K

Do

128

Agaricus (Flammula) penetrans Fr

Do

131

Agaricus (Psilocybe) spadiceus Fr48

Do

140

Hexagona similis B49

Port Jackson

139

Polyporus oblectans B

Ovens River

Polyporus (Res) bistratosus B & Cke

Bellenden Ker

Clavaria coralloides Fr50

Ovens River

Hirneola auricula Judaae Fr51

Do

136

Trametes versatilis Fr var52

Bellenden Ker

Trametes laevis B53

Paramatta54

Stereum caperatum B & M55

Illawarra

Trametes occidentalis Fr

Endeavour River

Polyporus sanguineus Fr56

Do

Bovista lilacina B & M

Do

Polyporus marginatus Fr

Do

26

Polyporus sulfureus Fr57

Do

Polyporus ferreus B

Do

Polyporus pinsitus Fr

Do

Polyporus elegans Fr58

Do

Polyporus xanthopus Fr

Do

Scleroderma bovista Fr

Do

Scleroderma geaster Fr

Do

Lycoperdon australe B

Do59

Daedalea sinulosa Fr

Endeavour River

Stereum nitidulum B

Do

Trametes Mulleri B

Do

Polyporus versiciolor v. decipiens60

Do

Polyporus ochroleucus B

Do

Polyporus grammocephalus B

Do

Do var Emerici B

Do

Polyporus velutinus Fr

Do

Polyporus chioneus Fr affinis61

Do

Polyporus senex Nees

Do

Irpex flavus Kl

Do

Lentinus exilis Kl

Do

Agaricus (Pleurotus) salignus Fr

Do

Xylaria sp. (sterile)62

Do

A

Polyporus portentosus B

N. Queensland

B

Lentinus strigosus B63

Do

C

Polyporus rubidus B

Do

D

Trametes rigida Fr64

Do

E

Polyporus Perademae B & Br

Do

F

Polyporus xanthopus Fr

Do

G

———————Do———————65

Do

H

Polyporus flabelliformis Kl

Do

I

———————Do———————66

Do

K

Polyporus xanthopus Fr

Do

L

Polyporus hirsutus Fr

Do

M

Trametes occidentalis Fr

Do

N

Stereum Boryanum Lev67

Do

O

Cladoderris (young)

Do

P

Lenzites deplanata Fr

Do

Q

Polyporus flabelliformis Kl

Do

R

Trametes Sprucei B68

Do

S

Polyporus lucidus Fr

Do

T

———————Do———————69

Do

U

———————Do———————70

Do71

V

Polyporus sanguineus Fr72

N Queensland

W

Polyporus Hasskarlii Lev73

Do

X

Polyporus lucidus Fr

Do

Polyporus affinis N

Do

Polyporus cichoraceus

Do

Polyporus lucidus Fr (sub "piceus")

Do

Trametes sprucei B

Do

Polyporus cinnabarinus

Do

Polyporus pergamenus Fr74

Do

660

Mycelium only

Clarendon

Polyporus cinnabarinus

Moe Swamp75

Polyporus sanguineus Fr76

Do

Calocera stricta Fr

Do

Schizophyllum commune Fr

Do

Agaricus (Psath)77 disseminatus Fr

Do

Polyporus vaporarius Fr

Do

Stereum elegans Fr

Do

Tremella albida Hud

Do

Trametes heteromalla Cke78

Do

Agaricus (Naucoria) cerodes Fr

Do

Craterellus confluens B & C

Endeavour River

659

Polyporus ochroleucus B79

Clarendon

Polyporus australis Fr

Toorvoomba80

Stemonitis ferruginea […]81

Do

Hymenochaete tenuissima B

Do

Stereum sulfureum Fr

Do

Geaster fimbriatus Fr82

Do

800

Stereum illudens B83

Do

Tremella mesenterica Fr84

Do

Cynophallus Caleyi B

Do

Polyporus cinnabarinus Fr

Twofold Bay

Psilosphaeria congesta Cke85

Do

Hymonechaeta (junior)

Toorvoomba86

Boletus subtomentosus Fr?

Do87

Chlorosplenium aeruginosum Tul88

Toorvoomba

Agaricus (Flammula) sapineus Fr

Moe Swamp

Agaricus (Pholiota) mutabiles89

Do

Polyporus varius Fr

Upper Ovens River

Stereum elegans Fr

Do

143

Boletus pachypus Fr90

Illawarra

142

Boletus subtomentosus Fr91

Do

Morchella conica P

Upper Murray River92

Polyporus cinnabarinus Fr

Mt Gambier93

57

Polyporus marginatus Fr

Mt Macedon94

68

Polyporus cinnabarinus Fr

Mt Macedon

Puccinia prunorum Lk95

Mt Macedon

Agaricus (Amanita) vaginatus Fr96

Mt Gambier

Polyporus lilacinogilvus B

Daintree River

Polyporus rubidus B

Do

Peziza tricholoma Mont

Do

Polyporus ferreus B

Do

Xylaria polymorpha Grev

Do

Stereum caperatum B & M

Do

Dictyonema aeruginosum Nees

Do

Polyporus flabelliformis Kl

Do

Stereum Boryanum Lev97

Do

Polyporus stereoides B98

Do

Clavaria Kunzei Fr

Do

Cyathus intermedius Tul

Do

Xylaria tabacina Kickx99

Do

Polyporus brunneolus B

Do

Polyporus (Merisma) laetus Cke

Upp Oven's River100

Polyporus cinnabarinus Fr

Mt Dromedary

Lycoperdon australe B

Do

Lycoperdon gemmatum Fr101

Do

Mycenastrum phaeotrichum B

Do

Polyporus ochroleucus B

Do

Stereum Sowerbeyi B102

Do

Clavaria fastigiata DC.103

Mt Dromedary

Agaricus (Lepiota) Beckleri B

Do

Agaricus (Pholiota) spectabilis Gr

Do

Agaricus (Lepiota) clypeolarius Fr104

Do

Urnula rhytidea B105

Richmond River

Stereum (varnished perhaps new106

N Queensland107

Polysaccum olivaceum Fr

Endeavour River

Thelephora albomarginata Schw

Gulgong108

59{

Xylaria tuberiformis B

Bellenden Ker

Xylaria polymorpha Grev

Do

Panus torulosus Fr

Moe Swamp

Panus viscidulus B

Do

Agaricus (Armillaria) melleus B109

Do

Polyporus cinnabarinus Fr

Gulgong NSW

Polyporus arcularius Fr

Do

135

Imperfect Phoma

Muellers ville110

Hysterium pulicare Fr111

Clarence River

121

Imperfect Lycoperdon

S W Australia112

126

Peziza splendens Quelet

Do

127

Peziza badia P — ——————

Do

Agaricus (Collybia) nivosulus B

Moe Swamp

Agaricus (Lepiota) mastoideus Fr

Do113

Agaricus (Pleurotus) salignus Fr

Lake Bonney114

M C Cooke

July 20/82

Agaricus (Lepiota) mastoideus

Agaricus (Amanita) vaginatus

Agaricus (Armillaria) melleus

Agaricus (Collybia) eradicatus

Agaricus (Collybia) nivosulus

Agaricus (Flammula) penetrans

Agaricus (Flammula) sapineus

Agaricus (Lepiola) mastoideus

Agaricus (Lepiota) Beckleri

Agaricus (Lepiota) clypeolarius

Agaricus (Naucoria) cerodes

Agaricus (Pholiota) mutabiles

Agaricus (Pholiota) spectabilis

Agaricus (Pleurotus) mitis

Agaricus (Pleurotus) salignus

Agaricus (Psalliota) arvensis

Agaricus (Psathyrella) disseminatus

Agaricus (Psilocybe) spadiceus

Agaricus furfuraceus

Agaricus ostreatus

Auricularia lobata

Boletus calopus

Boletus pachypus

Boletus subtomentosus

Bovista lilacina

Calocera stricta

Chlorosplenium aeruginosum

Chroolepus Jolithus

Cladoderris

Clavaria coralloides

Clavaria fastigiata

Clavaria Kunzei

Craterellus confluens

Cyathus Colensoi

Cyathus intermedius

Cynophallus Caleyi

Daedalea ambigua

Daedalea Bowmanni

Daedalea sinulosa

Dictyonema aeruginosum

Fistulina hepatica

Geaster fimbriatus

Geoglossum glabrum

Hexagona rigida

Hexagona similis

Hirneola auricula Judaae

Hirneola hispidula

Hirneola polytricha

Hymenochaete crassa

Hymenochaete strigosa

Hymenochaete tenuissima

Hysterium pulicare

Irpex flavus

Irpex maximus

Lentinus exilis

Lentinus lecomtei

Lentinus strigosus

Lenzites betulina

Lenzites deplanata

Lycoperdon australe

Lycoperdon australe

Lycoperdon gemmatum

Lycoperdon pusillum

Merulius corium

Morchella conica

Morchella semilibera

Mycenastrum phaeotrichum

Panus torulosus

Panus viscidulus

Peziza badia

Peziza splendens

Peziza tricholoma

Phallus multicolor

Phoma

Podaxon circinalis

Polyporus (Merisma) anthracophilus

Polyporus (Merisma) laetus

Polyporus (Merisma) retiporus

Polyporus (Resupinatus) atrovinosus

Polyporus (Resupinatus) bistratosus

Polyporus affinis

Polyporus angustus

Polyporus arcularius

Polyporus australis

Polyporus brunneolus

Polyporus chioneus

Polyporus cichoraceus

Polyporus cinnabarinus

Polyporus confluens

Polyporus confluens

Polyporus Curreyi

Polyporus elegans

Polyporus ferreus

Polyporus flabelliformis

Polyporus grammocephalus var Emerici

Polyporus Hasskarlii

Polyporus hirsutus

Polyporus igniarius

Polyporus lilacinogilvus

Polyporus lucidus

Polyporus lucidus sub piceus

Polyporus marginatus

Polyporus oblectans

Polyporus ochroleucus

Polyporus Perademae

Polyporus pergamenus

Polyporus pinsitus

Polyporus portentosus

Polyporus rubidus

Polyporus sanguineus

Polyporus senex

Polyporus stereoides

Polyporus sulfureus

Polyporus vaporarius

Polyporus varius

Polyporus velutinus

Polyporus versiciolor var decipiens

Polyporus versicolor

Polyporus xanthopus

Polysaccum olivaceum

Psilosphaeria congesta

Puccinia prunorum

Schizophyllum commune

Scleroderma bovista

Scleroderma geaster

Sclerotum

Stemonitis ferruginea

Stereum Boryanum

Stereum caperatum

Stereum caperatum

Stereum elegans

Stereum illudens

Stereum lobatum

Stereum nitidulum B

Stereum purpureum

Stereum Sowerbeyi

Stereum sulfureum

Thelephora albomarginata

Trametes acuta

Trametes colliculosus

Trametes heteromalla

Trametes lactinea

Trametes laevis

Trametes Mulleri

Trametes occidentalis

Trametes pyrrhocreas

Trametes rigida

Trametes sprucei

Trametes versatilis var

Tremella albida

Tremella mesenterica

Urnula rhytidea

Xylaria polymorpha

Xylaria tabacina Kickx

Xylaria tuberiformis

FNI gives the author of the combination as Meyer, not Fries.

There is no ✓ beside this number. FNI has Retzius as the author of the name, not Fries.

SA.

Vic.

Hexagonia?

SA; FNI has Persoon as the author of the name, not Fries.

Qld.

Qld.

NSW.

FNI has Fries as the author of the combination, not B[erkeley].

FNI gives the author of the combination as Meyer, not Fries.

Not in FNI or Index fungorum; Cooke (1892), p. 22, gives the genus as Podaxis, and attributes Podaxon to Desvaux as a synonym. The name P. circinalis has not been found.

SA.

FNI gives Fries as the author of the combination, not B[erkeley].

There is more than one Mt Dromedary in Australia; this is the one near Tilba Tilba, NSW, where Ed. Reader collected for M, including fungi (see MEL 2069189, an undated Hirneola sp. from Mt Dromedary; see also B81.02.02 and M to J. Hooker, 3 March 1880).

NSW.

There is a note, probably by Cooke, 'sp nov.', below the number, linked to the name by a short line. This is the last entry on p. 1 of the list.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

Error for Daintree?

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

FNI gives Berkeley as the author of the combination, not M[…].

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

FNI gives Montagne as the author, not Fries.

i.e. Toowoomba, Qld.

NSW.

NSW.

NSW.

Now Bowen, Qld? M had many collections from this area. It is unlikely that Port Denison, WA, is intended, because although M had collections from that local government area, they were mostly collected by him in 1877, while the fungi collections from the locality listed for MEL in AVH (accessed 22 May 2021) were all collected by R. S. Fisson on 4 September 1966.

FNI gives Persoon as the author of the name, not Fries.

T. colliculosa? The name is given as T. colliculosa, as a synonym of Sclerodepsis colliculosa, in Cooke (1892), p. 161.

D. bowmanii?

Qld.

Qld.

Resupinatus.

FNI gives Schaeffer as the author of the name, not Fries.

FNI gives Klotzsch as the author of the name, not Fries.

FNI gives Persoon as the author of the name, not Fries.

Junior in the sense of young or immature. See discussion in notes to M. Cooke to M, 26 March 1889 (in this edition as 89-03-26a).

There is no ✓ to the left the number is no pencilled line against this entry.

SA.

This is the last entry on page 2.

There is an illegible letter (half formed?) between and slightly above the ✓ and '144'. FNI gives Jacquin as the author of the name, not Fries.

There is a ✓ to the right of 129; FNI gives A. P. de Candolle as the author, not P[…].

Vic.

FNI gives Berkeley as the author, not Fries.

Mt Bellenden Ker, Qld.

FNI gives Persoon as the author, not Fries.

FNI gives Schaeffer as the author, not Fries.

Hexagonia?

There is a pencilled X against this line. FNI gives Linnaeus as the author, not Fries.

Hirneola auricula Judae; Cooke has written 'a' followed by a diphthong 'æ'. The trinomial is not in FNI, but Index fungorum gives the author as Berkeley, not Fries.

FNI gives Berkeley as the author, not Fries.

In FNI and Index fungorum as T. levis, but T. laevis in Cooke (1892), p. 159.

i.e. Parramatta, NSW.

There is a pencilled X against this line, and a short line extending from the margin to below the beginning of Stereum.

FNI gives the author of the combination as Meyer, not Fries.

There is no ✓ beside the number. In FNI and Index fungorum as P. sulphureus, but in Cooke (1982), p. 119 as P. sulfureus.

FNI gives Trog as the author of this combination, not Fries.

This is the last entry on p. 3.

Published variety name not found.

i.e. near to.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

FNI gives Fries as the author of this combination, not B[erkeley].

FNI gives Berkeley & Montagne as the author of this name, not Fries.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

FNI gives Fries as the author of this name, not Léveillé.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

This is the last entry on p. 4; there is an annotation by J. H. Willis at the bottom right of the page: '20 July 1882'.

FNI gives Meyer as the author of this combination, not Fries.

FNI and Cooke (1892), p. 151, use the combination Polystictus haskarlii, made in Cooke (1885-6), p. 86.

Name in Index fungorum, but not in FNI or Cooke (1892).

Gippsland, Vic. M to T. Wilson, 26 April 1882, announced he was going for 'a day or two to Gippsland, for obtaining mosses lichens and fungs'.

FNI gives Meyer as the author of this combination, not Fries.

Psathyrella; see Cooke (1892), p. 68.

'sp. nov.' written to the left of the entry.

The is no ✓ beside the number.

i.e. Toowoomba, Qld.

Illegible initials, but definitely not an abbreviation of Ehrenberg, the author given in FNI and in Cooke (1892), p. 394.

Index fungorum gives the name as an orthographic variant of Geastrum fimbriatum.

There is no ✓ beside the number.

FNI gives Retzius as the author, not Fries.

'sp. nov.' written to the left of the entry.

i.e. Toowoomba, Qld.

This is the last entry on p. 5.

FNI gives De Notarius as the author of the combination, not Tulasne.

FNI gives Schaeffer as the author, not Fries.

There is no ✓ beside the number.

FNI gives Linnaeus as the author, not Fries.

NSW/Vic.

SA.

Vic.

In neither FNI nor Cooke (1892); there is a pencilled X against this entry.

FNI gives Bulliard as the author, not Fries.

FNI gives Fries as the author of this name, not Léveillé.

FNI gives Fries as the author of this name, not B[erkeley].

Not in FNI; Cooke (1892), p. 283, gives it as a synonym of X. involuta, which is also absent from FNI.

i.e. Upper Ovens River, Vic. 'sp. nov' written to left of entry.

FNI gives Batsch as the author of this name, not Fries.

Stereum sowerbyi (Index fungorum); S. sowerbei (FNI); S. Sowerbeii (Cooke (1892), p. 182)? This is the last entry on p. 6.

FNI gives Linnaeus as the author, not de Candolle.

FNI gives Bulliard as the author, not Fries.

Urnula rhytidia (Index fungorum); U. rhytida (FNI)? Cooke (1892), p. 269, has the spelling used here.

No closing parenthesis; 'Varnished' describes the appearance of a surface, as in 'Pileus [cap] horizontal, …, smooth, with a varnished crust' (Cooke (1892), p. 128).

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

NSW.

FNI gives Vahl as author, not B[erkeley].

i.e., Muellerville, a property near Rockhampton bought by Anthelme Thozet in 1861 and so named by him. There is no ✓ beside the number.

Not in FNI, but in Cooke (1892), p. 275.

There is no pencilled line against this entry.

There is a long, sloping pen stroke in the margin producing three lines protruding into the list before the first character of Agaricus.

There are two locations called Lake Bonney in SA; this one probably in the SE, to the west of Mt Gambier, from where M's sister Clara Wehl and her children collected many specimens, including fungi; some paintings by Marie Wehl were sent to Cooke (Dowe, May, Maroske & Smith (2020)). See also notes to G. Massee to M, 7 May 1888 (in this edition as 88-05-07b). Note, however, that AVH (accessed 26 May 2020) lists five fungus specimens at MEL collected around the more northern Lake Bonney, near Barmera, by 'Miss Wehl'.

The list is one of a number sent by Cooke that are now in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. See notes to M. Cooke to M, 17 January 1885, for a discussion of Cooke's author attributions.

Unless otherwise noted, all entries with an identifying number or letter have an ink ✓ to the left of the numeral or letter. Unless otherwise noted all entries have a pencil — before the name, usually horizontal, but sometimes sloping.

FNI and Index fungorum were accessed 26 May 2021.

Please cite as “FVM-82-07-20,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-07-20