From Mordecai Cooke to Ferdinand von Mueller   17 Jan 1885

There is a ✓ to the left of this and the next twelve lines.

NSW.

FNI gives Retzius, not Fries, as the author of the name.

Vic.

In FNI and Index fungorum as Geastrum florifiorme.

In addition to the ✓ there is a pencilled X against this line. Index fungorum attributes this name to Bulliard, although it lists some varieties named by Fries.

FNI gives Scopoli, not Fries, as the author of the name.

Index fungorum gives Bulliard, not Fries, as the author of the name. In addition to the ✓ there is a pencilled X against this line.

In addition to the ✓ there is a pencilled X against this line.

FNI gives Bulliard, not Fries, as the author of the name.

Name not found in FNI, Index fungorum, Cooke (1892) or Cooke (1892a). In addition to the ✓ there is a pencilled X against this line.

FNI gives Bulliard, not Fries, as the author of the name. In addition to the ✓ there is a pencilled X against this line.

Mt Wellington, Tas; see M to T. Stephens, August 1884 (in this edition as 84-08-00d).

Almost certainly at Walhalla, Vic. FNI gives Scopoli, not Fries, as the author of the name. There is a ✓ at the left of the line, and against 'Stringers Creek'.

Do deleted.

There is a pencilled X at the left of the line. See May (1990), p. 267, for a discussion of the difficulty of attributing species names without adequate notes of their characteristics.

FNI gives Bulliard, not Fries, as the author of the name. The text ends before the end of the page, with a squiggle under the last number in the list.

Text begins the second page of the folded folio. Unless otherwise noted all entries in this section have a ✓ at the left of the line.

Index fungorum attributes this name to Bulliard, although it lists some varieties named by Fries.

Grazing property near Gulgong, NSW.

Almost certainly Alexander Hamilton.

Qld.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line; FNI does not list purely infrageneric taxa, but see Fries (1836-8), p. 452. It is not listed in Index fungorum (accessed 22 April 2021), but this combination is used in Peck (1877), p. 37; Anodermei is used as an infrageneric in other combinations, for example in Berkeley & Broome (1887), pp. 218-9.

Grampians, Vic.

Hexagonia?

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line; Ano= Anodermei.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line; Ano= Anodermei.

Not identified.

Tisdall.

NSW.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line; Res = Resupinatus; see Cooke (1881-3), vol. 10, p. 56 (although Cooke described it without that infrageneric name in Cooke (1881-3), vol. 10, p. 131).

There is no ✓ against this line. Both Harriet and Helena Scott sent specimens to M; the only fungus attributed to one of them listed on AVH (accessed 24 April 2021), MEL 1054029, is labelled "Miss Scott". After her marriage in 1864, Helena's specimens are recorded under he married name of 'Mrs Forde', and it is probable that the specimens sent to Cooke will have been collected by Harriet.

SA. In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line; Trich = Tricholoma.

North Qld.

FNI gives Klozsch, not Fries, as the author of the name.

Vic. In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

The author cited in Cooke (1892), p. 338, is Montagne.

Not in FNI or Index fungorum; in Cooke (1892), p. 409, the name is given as a synonym of Uromyces bulbinis. In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

There is no ✓ against this line.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line

NSW. There is no ✓ against this line.

FNI gives Hornemann, not Fries, as the author of the name, although Index fungorum has one variety named by Fries.

i.e., the St. Vincent Gulf coast of the Yorke Peninsula, SA, where Tepper was based at the time.

In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right. Pleur = Pleurotus (see Cooke (1892), p. 22).

There is no ✓ against this line. Coll = Collybia (see Cooke (1892), p. 18).

In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right. Arm = Armillaria (see Cooke (1892), p. 11).

FNI gives Hudson, not Fries, as the author of the name. In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right.

NSW.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line. 'Hodgkinson' is interlined and the ditto marks in the next two entries may refer only to 'Richmond River'.

In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right. Nauc = Naucoria (see Cooke (1892), p. 53).

In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right. Although: Cooke (1892), pp. 111-127 does not use infrageneric names in Polyporus, Berkeley & Broome (1887), p. 218, use the infrageneric name Pleuropus for another species.

Although Cooke (1892), pp. 111-127 does not use infrageneric names in Polyporus, Berkeley & Broome (1887), p. 219, use the infrageneric name Inodermei for another species.

In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right. Flam = Flammula (see Cooke (1892), p. 52).

In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right.

In addition to the ✓ at the left of this line, there is also one at the right.

FNI gives Persoon, not Fries, as the author of the name.

In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line. Index fungorum gives Persoon, not Fries, as the author of the name. Although Cooke (1892), pp. 111-127 does not use infrageneric names in Polyporus, Berkeley & Broome (1887), use the infrageneric name Resupinati for another species.

Qld.

FNI gives Berkeley, not Fries, as the author of the name.

Earlier name of Orara River, NSW.

FNI gives Persoon, not Fries, as the author of the name.

Then an independent British colony in the Pacific Ocean c.1400 km east of Australia, with the Governor of NSW as Governor; now an external territory of Australia.

Near Sunbury, Vic.

Probably the Severn River, Northern Tablelands, NSW.

FNI gives Retzius, not Fries, as the author of the name. There was more than one Sewell collecting for M in the Swan River region in WA, sometimes designated in the collections as 'Miss Sewell'; see Maroske & Vaughan (2014).

NSW; Alexander Crawford. FNI gives Persoon, not Fries, as the author of the name.

FNI gives Schaeffer, not Fries, as the author of the name.

FNI gives O. F. Müller, not Fries, as the author of the name. Near Shoalhaven, NSW.

Almost certainly Carl Hartmann.

Vic.

Almost certainly Mary Hodgkinson; see Maroske & Vaughan (2014).

FNI gives Bulliard, not Fries, as the author of the name. In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line, and an additional at the right; Trich = Tricholoma.

Cooke has added '(unique")' to the left of the line; FNI gives Scopoli, not Fries, as the author of the name. There is an additional ✓ to the right of the line.

FNI gives Persoon, not Fries, as the author of the name. In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

Error for brachycomes? In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

Prenanthis over compositarum deleted. In addition to the ✓, there is a pencilled X at the left of the line.

There is no ✓ to the left of this line.

Cooke (1885a), p. 12, uses this spelling; on modern maps as Bulahdelah.

FNI gives Bertero, not Fries, as the author of the name.

The remainder of the entries are on a single foolscap sheet.

Text unclear, but probable 'M', for Montagne.

Variety name not in Index fungorum (accessed 28 April 2021).

Variety name not in Index fungorum (accessed 28 April 2021).

Error for U. anguillariae? See Cooke (1892), p. 343.

Name not found in Index fungorum (accessed 28 April 2021).

Presumably in the sense of 'rancid' or 'withered', see OED. There is no ✓ to the left of this line.

Tisdall's painting of this species is included here as an example of the material supplied to Cooke. 85-01-17_image01.jpg (Painting at MEL).

The reverse of the painting has the following text: 85-01-17_image02.jpg

By M: Walhalla, Gippsland, Mr Tisdale (sic). 1883.

By Tisdall: Mining tunnel

By Cooke: Surface covered with Penicillium candidum Lk

There is more than one Mt Dromedary in Australia, one in each of Tas. and Qld, and two in NSW. The specimen is likely to have come from the locality in the south-east of NSW near Tilba Tilba, where Edward Reader is known to have collected for M, see E. Reader to M, 18 March 1880, and B81.02.02.

SA?

SA.

North Qld.

Thomas Whitelegge.

Toowoomba, Qld?

NSW.

NSW.

Hexagonia wightii? FNI gives Fries as the author of the name.

FNI gives Bulliard, not Fries, as the author of the name.

Agaricus; FNI gives Scopoli, not Fries as the author of the name.

Agaricus (Psalliota) campestris. For infrageneric name, see Cooke (1892), p. 60; FNI gives Linnaeus, not Fries, as the author of the name.

NSW.

The list is one of a number sent by Cooke that are now in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. This list comprises one folio of four pages, plus one additional page carrying the valediction and date. The four-page folio has been annotated by J. H. Willis as being part of the list that includes the date, and there are matching pin holes in the sheets.

Cooke has evidently added ✓ marks against many entries, as they are in ink that has the same appearance as that in the text. The few cases where entries have been marked with a pencilled 'X' may be M's annotations, but this is difficult to confirm.

Cooke's author attributions do not always coincide with those used in Cooke (1892); he has evidently use 'Fr' where the name is included in Fries (1874), which is frequently cited together with the author in Cooke (1892). Where the author attribution does not match that given in FNI or Index mycorum, this is indicated in the notes. Not all of these species are currently recognised as being Australian: May (1890), p. 268, points out that a 'tendency to place Australian collections under European species has consequently meant that a large number of European species (over 500) have been recorded from Australia'. Names have therefore been checked in Index fungorum if they are not present in FNI. FNI does not list purely infrageneric taxa, so where these are used they have been checked in Cooke (1892) or other sources identified in the notes.

Names of places are identified only at their first appearance in the list; names of people are identified only when there is possibility of confusion with others mentioned in the correspondence.

FNI and Index fungorum were accessed 14 May 2021.