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
See M to E. Ramsay, 30 August 1882.
Described by M in B59.10.02, p. 17.
Letter not found.
Letterstedtia? See Agardh (1873-90), part 3, pp. 175-7 (1883). The name is spelled as in M's letter in 'Notes and exhibits', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1883, vol. 7, p. 402, presented at the meeting held on 27 September 1882, where Ramsay reported that 'in a recent letter' M had 'kindly given me the names of the following algae… from Bondi'.
Linnean Society.
At the meeting of the Linnean Society of NSW held on 27 September 1882, Ramsay urged the search for fruiting specimens of Claudea bennettiana.
Please cite as “FVM-82-09-22c,” 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