Hochgeehrter Freund!
Da ich längere Zeit vom Hause abwesend war, habe ich erst jetzt mein Dankschreiben an die Linneisch Gesellschaft in Sydney abgesandt, nebst ein paar kleineren Abhandlungen. Meine "Icones selectae" werden etwas später folgen, weil jetzt, wegen der ägyptischen Wirren der Weg über Suez nicht ganz sicher erscheint.
Ihre letzter Pilzsendung ist vor wenig Tagen angelangt und enthält wenig Braüchbares. Von der Vorletzten habe ich folgendes determinirt.1
Highly esteemed Friend!
Since I was absent from home for a long time, I have only now sent off my letter of thanks to the Linnean Society in Sydney, together with a couple of smaller papers.2 My Icones selectae will follow somewhat later, because now the route via Suez seems not quite safe owing to the Egyptian turmoil.
Your last fungal consignment arrived a few days ago and contains little that is useful. Of the last but one I have determined the following:
| 1 | Ag. Lepiot. megalotheles3 K. n. sp. Endeavour Riv= Persick.4 |
| 2 | Ag. Lepiot bubalinus5 Berkl. Endeav. Riv. |
| 3 | Ag. Trichol. panaeolus6 Fr. (proxime) Endeavour Riv. |
| 4 | Ag. Collybia, nitellinus7 Fr Illavarra8 l. Kirton |
| 5 | Ag. (Hebeloma) Kirtoni K. n sp. (vel si melius placet: Ag. careo-lateritius) — Illawarra |
| 6 | Ag (Flammula) peregrinus Fr Brigthon9 near Melbourne leg. Luehmann 1882. |
| 7 | Ag. Psathyrella, gracilis10 Fr — Illawarra |
| 8 | Russula fragilis Fr. — Endeavour Riv. |
| 9 | Ag (Hypholoma) peltastes K. n. sp. Illawarra, Kirton. |
| 10 | Lentinus princeps Fr. — Illawarra |
| 11 | Cyphella capula Fr. — Illawara |
| 12 | Polyp.11 (Pleuropus) lucidus var exquisitus12 K. |
| 13 | Polypor.13 (Mesopus) perdurans14 K. n s Tasmania |
| 14 | Geaster fimbriatus15 Illawarra |
| 15 | Cyathus intermedius Berkl. Illawarra |
| 16 | Lycoperdon glabrescens Berkl. Brighton leg. J. Luehmann. |
| 17 | Scleroderma pileolatum K. — Illawarra |
Agaricus (Collybia) nitellinus
Agaricus (Flammula) peregrinus.
Agaricus (Hebeloma)
Agaricus (Hypholoma) peltastes
Agaricus careo-lateritius
Agaricus Lepiota bubalinus
Agaricus Lepiota megalotheles.
Agaricus Psathyrella, gracilis
Agaricus Tricholoma panaeolus
Cyathus intermedius
Cyphella capula
Geaster fimbriatus
Lentinus princeps
Lycoperdon glabrescens
Polyporus (Mesopus) perdurans
Polyporus (Pleuropus) lucidus var exquisitus
Russula fragilis
Scleroderma pileolatum
The list of determinations follows on from this text.
Kalchbrenner was elected a Corresponding Member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales on 29 March 1882. The papers he sent them as thanks are presumably the two papers by him read at the Society's meetings on 29 November and 27 December 1882, that is Kalchbrenner (1882a) and Kalchbrenner (1882b).
Agaricus Lepiota megalotheles. All 'Ag.' In this list = Agaricus.
Persieh?
Agaricus Lepiota bubalina?
Agaricus Tricholoma panaeolum?
Name not found in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021) but illustrated as 'Agaricus (Collybia) nitellinus Fries I" in Cooke (1881-91), vol. 2, plate 146.
Illawarra (NSW).
Brighton.
Name not found in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021), which does not record infrageneric names, but illustrated in Cooke (1881-91), vol. 5, plate 634, as 'Agaricus (Psathyrella) gracilis', where it is attributed to Berkeley, not Fries.
Polyporus.
Name not found in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021), which does not record infrageneric names,) but listed in Grevillea, vol. 13, (1884-5), p. 32 as 'Polyporus (Pleuropus) lucidus' in a list of fungi from Demerara, transferred from an Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition to Kew.
Polyporus.
Not found with 'Mesopus' in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021), which does not record infrageneric names, nor elsewhere.
Name not found in FNI but Index fungorum lists it as an orthographic variant of Geastrum fimbriatum (both accessed 4 May 2021).
Latest possible date this letter could have been sent established from MS annotation by M: 'Erhalthen u beantwortet Oct. 1882' [Received and answered October 1882]. See also K. Kalchbrenner to M, 22 July 1882.
Please cite as “FVM-82-09-00a,” 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