From Jacob Agardh to Ferdinand von Mueller   [1883]

Algae from Rottnest Island1 collected by

Courderot de Malange 18822

1. Cystophora Brownii?

2. Galaxaura major Decsne.3

3 Areschougia ligulata Harv.

4 Laurencia Grevilleana Harv.

5 Sporochnus scoparius Harv.

6. Mastophora plana Sond.

7 (no specimen with this no.)

8 Ptilota coralloidea J Ag

9 Cystophora pectinata Harv.

10 Zonaria nigrescens Sond.

11 (Cymodocea)

12 Laurencia concinna Mont.

13 Scythothalia4 dorycarpa Grev.

14 Hypnea seticulosa J Ag

15 Sargassum tristichum

16-17 no specimen with these nrs

18 Laurencia Forsteri Turn.

19. Plocamium nidificum Harv.

20 Spyridia breviarticulata J Ag

21 Sargassum spinuligerum Sond.

22. Laurencia luxurians J Ag

23. Pterocladia lucida

24a Turbinaria vulgaris

24b. variety? more specimens wanted.

25. Plocamium nidificum

26a et 26b. fragments of Sargassum

27 Galaxaura sp.?

28 Dictyota furcellata

29-30 (no specimens).

31 Cladophora valonioides Sond.

32 (no specimen)

33 Sargassum muriculatum J Ag.

34-37 (no specimens)

38 Phacelocarpus sessilis H.

39. Curdiea laciniata Harv.

40-41 no specimens

42 Sargassum decurrens

43 is a Phacelocarpus of which

the pinnulae are striked off.

44 Thysanocladia perhaps new sp.

more specimens wanted

45 Vidalia spiralis

46 (no specimen with this no.)

47 Corallina Cuvierii5

48 Laurencia Forsteri

49 Caulerpa Muelleri

50 (no specimen)

51 Thysanocladia oppositifolia

52 Bryopsis australis Sond?

53 (no specimen)

54 Rhodymenia australis Sond

55 Rytiphlaea aculeata J Ag

56 Dictyota Diemensis Sond

57 Plocamium leptophyllum

58 Champia affinis var.

59 Cystophyllum onustum?

(more specimens)

60 (no specimen)

61 Halimeda macroloba

62 Amphiroa australis

63-64 (no specimens)

65 Phyllotricha uvifera J Ag.6

J G Agardh

Amphiroa australis

Areschougia ligulata

Bryopsis australis

Caulerpa Muelleri

Champia affinis

Cladophora valonioides

Corallina Cuvierii

Curdiea laciniata

Cymodocea

Cystophora Brownii

Cystophora pectinata

Cystophyllum onustum

Dictyota Diemensis

Dictyota furcellata

Galaxaura major

Halimeda macroloba

Hypnea seticulosa

Laurencia concinna

Laurencia Forsteri

Laurencia Forsteri

Laurencia Grevilleana

Laurencia luxurians

Mastophora plana

Phacelocarpus sessilis

Phyllotricha uvifera

Plocamium leptophyllum

Plocamium nidificum

Plocamium nidificum

Pterocladia lucida

Ptilota coralloidea

Rhodymenia australis

Rytiphlaea aculeata

Sargassum decurrens

Sargassum muriculatum

Sargassum spinuligerum

Sargassum tristichum

Scythothalia dorycarpa

Sporochnus scoparius

Spyridia breviarticulata

Thysanocladia

Thysanocladia oppositifolia

Turbinaria vulgaris

Vidalia spiralis

Zonaria nigrescens

WA.

M sent a considerable number of algae from various collectors and localities to Agardh during 1882, without specifying any details in his letters. The list is therefore most likely from early 1883. Courderot was manager of the saltworks on Rottnest Island; see West Australian, 28 August 1883, p. 3.

Not in AlgaeBase (accessed 30 April 2021); but see Decaisne (1842), p. 115.

Scytothalia?

C. cuvieri?

Not in AlgaeBase (accessed 30 April 2021), and no publication by Agardh including this name has been found.

Please cite as “FVM-83-00-00h,” 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/83-00-00h