To Edward Ramsay   22 September 1882

22/9/82

I owe you still my thanks, dear Mr Ramsay, for sending me two pieces of wood with bark of Myoporum platycarpum.¹ Is the loose piece (very flat) of wood from the same tree?

The "Dogwood" from the "Desert" is my Eremophila longifolia.²

Though I had named your Pterocladia and some other of your & Mr Haswells Algae, from Port Jackson, where seaweeds are so rare, I deemed it best to submit them to the great specialist, Prof Agardh of Lund, whose illustrious parent, Bishop Agardh was the main founder of Algology in the beginning of this century.

Dr Agardh gives me by last post³ the following names.

Pterocladia lucida, J. Agardh

Splachnidium rugosum, Greville.

Lederstedtia (n.g.) australis J. Agardh.⁴

Gelidium corneum, Greville

Plocamium angustum J. Agardh

The specimens of Laurencia and Martensia were too imperfect for specific naming. I named formerly Ctenodus Billardieri. Perhaps you might mention by the way of encouragement in collecting seaweeds, at the L. S.⁵ of N.S.W. that the algic flora of Port Jackson & other coast of N.S.W. deserve further attention, and that special search should be made for fruit specimens of Claudea Bennettiana near the east end of Spectacle Island.⁶

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Claudea Bennettiana

Ctenodus Billardieri

Eremophila longifolia

Gelidium corneum

Laurencia

Lederstedtia australis

Martensia

Myoporum platycarpum

Plocamium angustum

Pterocladia lucida

Splachnidium rugosum