From Jacob Agardh1    11 September 1882

Lund 11 Sept. 1882.

Hochgeehrter Herr Baron!

Ich vermuthe dass Sie meinen Brief mit Nahmen bestimmung der Algen, welche von Spong in Kings Island, von Ramsay at Port Jackson, und von Tepper at Vincents Gulf gesammelt waren, schon längst erhalten haben. Gleichzeitig habe ich an die Frau Doctorin Sonder geschrieben wegen Uebersendung der Algen, aber Sie war damals auf eine Reise nach Mecklenburg, und erst in einem Brief von 31 Juli habe ich Ihr Antwort erhalten. Sie erklärt darin, dass es Ihr erfreuen werde, wenn Ich die Bearbeitung der Algen übernehmen sollte. So bald Sie nach Hamburg zurück käme, wurde Sie die Algen samlungen mir übersenden lassen. Später habe ich nichts davon gehört. In den letzten 2 remissen von 11/7 und 17/7 ist nur eine Form neu; diese ist aber von intresse als eine von den früher bekanten Arten von Melanthalia, welche sich gegenseitig sehr näheren, gut geschiedene Species. Von den übrigen, die beynahe alle den allgemeinsten australischen Arten zugehören, habe ich einige fragmente, oder wo mehrere Exemplare vorräthig waren, das eine zurückbehalten.

Hochachtend zeichnet

J G Agardh

 

1. List of Algae from Fowlers bay2 near Gr. Bight from Mrs Richards.

Specimens 1 & 2. Ptilocladia pulchra Sond.

3 & 4. Callophyllis Lambertii

5 & 6. Callophyllis coccinea.

7-9 Plocamium nidificum

10-12 Hypnea episcopalis.

13. Hymenocladia divaricata

14. Pterocladia lucida var. β J. Ag. Epicr.3

15 Dictymenia tridens.

16. Hennedya crispa Harv.

17 Rhodophyllis nitophylloides Harv.

18 Delesseria coriifolia Harv.

19. Delesseria denticulata.

20. Conferva near to C. Bainesii Harv.4

 

List of Algae from coast near Mt Dromedary5 by Miss Bate.6

No. 1. Plocamium procerum

2. no alga — species of Sertularia

3. Cystophora paniculata with a Sertularia

4a. Phacelocarpus alatus.

4b. Phacelocarpus apodus? (but not in fruit)

5 Sphacelaria paniculata Suhr

6. (no specimen present)

7. Melanthalia obtusata intermedia

8. Pterocladia lucida

9. Pterocladia lucida

10. Gelidium australe

11. Phacelocarpus Labillardieri

12. perhaps Griffithsia antarctica (no fruit present)

13. Callophyllis coccinea

14. no alga — is a Flustra

15. Pterocladia lucida

16. Melanthalia polydactylis J. Ag. nov. sp.7

17a. Plocamium costatum

17b. Plocamium angustum.

18. no Alga — perhaps a Bryozoon.

19. no specimen present.

20 Microthoe marginata Harv.

21 no specimen present.

22. Areschougia Stuartii Harv.

 
 
 

Lund 11 September 1882.

Highly esteemed Baron!

I suspect that you have long ago received my letter8 with the name determinations of algae that were collected by Spong in King Island,9 from Ramsay at Port Jackson and from Tepper at Vincents Gulf.10 At the same time I have written to Mrs Sonder on sending the algae, but she was at that time on a journey to Mecklenburg and I received her answer only in a letter of 31 July. She says that she will be pleased if I should take over the working up of the algae. As soon as she comes back to Hamburg, she will have the algae collection sent to me. Later I have heard nothing of it. In the last two sendings of 11 July and 17 July only one form is new; but this is of interest as one of the previously known species of Melanthalia, which very much brings together well separated species. Of the remainder, which belong to nearly all the most common Australian species, I have retained some fragments or one specimen where several were available.

Very respectfully subscribes

J. G. Agardh

 

[See lists above]

 

Areschougia Stuartii

Callophyllis coccinea

Callophyllis Lambertii

Conferva Bainesii

Cystophora paniculata

Delesseria coriifolia

Delesseria denticulata

Gelidium australe

Griffithsia antarctica

Hennedya crispa

Hymenocladia divaricata

Hypnea episcopalis

Melanthalia obtusata intermedia

Melanthalia polydactylis

Microthoe marginata

Phacelocarpus alatus

Phacelocarpus apodus

Phacelocarpus Labillardieri

Plocamium angustum

Plocamium costatum

Plocamium nidificum

Plocamium procerum

Pterocladia lucida

Ptilocladia pulchra

Ptilocladia pulchra

Sphacelaria paniculata

1
MS annotation by M 'Beantw [Answered] 18/1/83 F.v.M.' Letter not found.
2
SA.
3
Agardh (1876).
4
Conferva bainesii not in AlgaeBase; the ony C. bainseii listed is Cladophera bainseii (accessed 1 August 2016).
5
NSW.
6
Mary Bate.
7
Type specimen is in MEL.
8
Letter not found, but see M to. E. Ramsay, 22 September 1882 (in this edition as 82-09-22c).
9
Tas.
10
St Vincent’s Gulf, SA.

Please cite as “FVM-82-09-11a,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/82-09-11a