Australian Fungi1
| Polyporus blepharistoma Berk |
Torvoomba2 |
|
| Trametes Muelleri Berk |
Do |
|
| Scleroderma geaster Fr |
Do |
|
| Clavaria botrytes3 Fr |
Do |
|
|
23 |
Boletus (subtomentosus Fr ?)4 |
Omeo5 |
| Ag.6 (Crepidotus) pactolus Cke7 |
Do |
|
|
24 |
Sepedonium chrysospermum Fr |
Do |
|
20 |
Ag8 (Amanita) vaginatus Fr. Prox. |
Do |
| Polyporus caliginosus Berk |
Endeavour River9 |
|
| Polyporus longipipes Lev10 |
New Guinea |
|
| Lentinus calvescens B11 |
New Guinea Coast |
|
| Polyporus australis Fr12 |
Do |
|
| Irpex flavus Jungh13 |
Walcha N England14 |
|
|
234 |
Xerotus papyraceus B |
Do |
| Xerotes lateritius B & C15 |
Do |
|
| Tremella lutescens Fr16 |
Do |
|
| Geaster fimbriatus Fr17 |
Do |
|
| Polyperus lilaceno-gilvus B |
Do |
|
| Xylaria digitata Fr. (? sterile)18 |
Do |
|
| Ag19 (Stropharia) semiglobatus Fr20 |
Do |
|
| Hymenochaete tabacina Fr21 |
Do |
|
|
257 |
Cyathus ambiguus Tul |
Do |
| Trametes heteromalla Cke |
Do |
|
|
3 |
Tremella lutescens Fr22 |
Norfolk Island |
|
7 |
Polyporus hirsutus Fr |
Do |
| Stereum lobatum Fr |
Do |
|
| Polyporus australis Fr |
Do |
|
| Duldinia vernicosa (Fr)23 |
Do |
|
|
5 |
Stereum lobatum Kze24 |
Do |
|
4 |
Thelephora caperata B |
Do |
| Polyporus sanguineus B25 |
Do |
|
| Xylaria schweinitzii B26 |
Do |
|
| Hypocrea fusarioides B27 |
Do |
|
| Aecidium compositarum v Bellides |
Melbourne |
|
| Aecidium Goodeniacearum B |
Braidwood28 |
|
| Geoglossum Muelleri Berk |
Port Phillip (French)29 |
|
| Hymenochaete purpurea C & M30 |
Norfolk Island |
|
| Nectria ditissema Tul |
Moona N E31 |
|
| Peniophora carnea Cke |
Walcha |
|
| Hirneola polytricha |
Torvoomba32 |
|
| Scleroderma geaster Fr |
Do |
|
| Schizophyllum commune Fr |
Do |
|
| Stereum spadiceum Fr33 |
Walcha N E |
|
|
15 |
Poronia punctata Fr (sub Ascobolus ([cr]awfordi)34 |
Source of Namoi35 |
| Stemonitis fusca R |
Luttit Bay (Beal)36 |
|
| Marasmius ignobilis B |
Moona NSW |
|
|
1 |
Panus torulosus Fr var. |
New Guinea |
|
2 |
Polyporus xanthopus Fr |
Do |
|
3 |
Trametes occidentalis Fr |
Do |
|
4 |
Polyporyus Haskarlii Lev |
Do |
|
5 |
Lenzites aspera Fr |
Do |
|
6 |
Hexagona polygramma Fr.37 |
Do |
|
7 |
Polyporus sanguineus Fr38 |
Do |
| Stereum Boryanum Fr |
Do |
|
|
8 |
Polyporus flabelliformis Fr39 |
Do |
|
9 |
Stereum lobatum Kze40 |
Do |
|
10 |
Polyporus senex Nees |
Do |
M C Cooke
April 4/1885
41My dear Baron
I have received 2 or 3 letters from you to which I have not replied42 (I) Because postage is so heavy until your Government will adopt Postal Cards (2) Because I had but little to say.
As far as I can I will save you specimens of Australian Fungi, but hitherto duplicates were handed over to Kew. I have already a number laid aside for you. My "Illustrations" occupy an immense time as I do not employ an artist at all but draw all myself and color the patterns.43 This with the revision of all Pyrenomycetes44 and a proposed Monograph of Polyporus45 are about sufficient work for 2 or 3 men. Excuse this short note — as you want the above list.
Yours faithfully
M Cooke
Aecidium compositarum v Bellides
Aecidium Goodeniacearum
Agaricus pactolus
Agaricus semiglobatus
Agaricus vaginatus
Amanita vaginatus
Ascobolus [cr]awfordi
Boletus subtomentosus
Clavaria botrytes
Crepidotus pactolus
Cyathus ambiguus
Duldinia vernicosa
Geaster fimbriatus
Geoglossum Muelleri
Hexagona polygramma
Hirneola polytricha
Hymenochaete purpurea
Hymenochaete tabacina
Hypocrea fusarioides
Irpex flavus
Lentinus calvescens
Lenzites aspera
Marasmius ignobilis
Nectria ditissema
Panus torulosus
Peniophora carnea
Polyperus lilaceno-gilvus
Polyporus
Polyporus australis
Polyporus australis
Polyporus blepharistoma
Polyporus caliginosus
Polyporus flabelliformis
Polyporus hirsutus
Polyporus longipipes
Polyporus sanguineus
Polyporus sanguineus
Polyporus senex
Polyporus xanthopus
Polyporyus Haskarlii
Poronia punctata
Pyrenomycetes
Schizophyllum commune
Scleroderma geaster
Sepedonium chrysospermum
Stemonitis fusca
Stereum Boryanum
Stereum lobatum
Stereum spadiceum
Stropharia semiglobatus
Thelephora caperata
Trametes heteromalla
Trametes Muelleri
Trametes occidentalis
Tremella lutescens
Xerotes lateritius
Xerotus papyraceus
Xylaria digitata
Xylaria schweinitzii
Unless otherwise noted, each name in the list has a ✓ to its left. Note that these fungi had not necessarily been sent to Cooke by M. Some bear numbers, but there is no key to them provided.
Toowoomba, Qld.
C. botrytis? FNI gives Persoon as the author, not Fries.
FNI gives Linnaeus as the author, not Fries. There is no ✓ against this name.
Vic.
Agaricus.
Non-standard abbreviation for Cooke; M listed '[Agaricus] pactolus, Cooke (Crepidotus)' in B85.10.04 without description, and no formal publication has been found (FNI and Index fungorum, accessed 4 April 2021).
Agaricus. FNI gives Bulliard as the author, not Fries. There is no ✓ against this name.
Qld.
There is no ✓ against this name.
i.e. Berkeley; Cooke uses either 'Berk' or 'B' for this author. There is no ✓ against this name.
There is no ✓ against this name.
FNI gives Klotzsch as the author, not Junghuhn.
NSW.
i.e. Berkeley & Curtis.
FNI gives Persoon as the author, not Fries.
Index fungorum gives Tulasne & Tulasne as the author, not Fries.
FNI gives Greville as the author, not Fries. There is no ✓ against this name
Agaricus.
FNI gives Batsch as the author, not Fries.
FNI give Lévillé as the author of the combination, not Fries.
FNI gives Persoon as the author, not Fries.
Index fungorum gives Cesati & De Notaris as the authors.
Contrast the author Cooke gives for this species above; FNI gives '(Kunze ex Fr.) Fr.' as the author.
FNI gives Meyer as the author of this combination, not Berkeley.
Index fungorum gives Berkeley & Curtis as the authors of this name.
Name not found (FNI and Index fungorum, accessed 4 April 2021).
NSW.
Vic. It is not known whether the collector is Charles French Snr or his son Charles H. French. MEL has fungi, including some dated before 1885, collected by each. The specimen of Geoglossum muelleri attributed to the elder French (MEL 2069157) is dated to 1887 (AVH, accessed 8 November 2023).
Cooke & Morgan.
Probably 'Moona Plains' a grazing property near Walcha, New Englnd (NSW), from where Alexander Crawford sent specimens to M; see, for example, A. Crawford to M, 1884 (in this edition as 84-00-00f).
Toowoomba, Qld.
FNI gives Brasadola as the author of this combination.
No name similar to Ascobolus crawfordi has been found (FNI and Index fungorum, accessed 4 April 2021).
Namoi River, NSW.
Now Lorne, Vic; probably Amy Beal, who is known to have collected algae for M there (see J. Agardh to M, 30 April 1885).
Name not found (FNI and Index fungorum, accessed 4 April 2021).
Compare with the earlier entry for this species, where the author is given as 'B'; FNI gives Meyer as the author of this combination, not Fries. There is no ✓ against this name.
FNI give the author of the combination as Klotzsch.
FNI give the author of the combination as 'Kunze ex FR.) Fr.'.
The remaining text is at the bottom of the second page of the sheet.
Letters not found.
Cooke (1881-91).
Cooke published his 'Synopsis Pyrenomycetum' across several issues of Grevillea, commencing with Cooke (1884) and concluding with Cooke (1891). The articles were reprinted in Cooke (1886-91).
The proposed monograph was not published but Cooke issued in seven parts his 'preliminary lists, imperfect though they may be, in order to indicate the arrangement we have decided to adopt' (Cooke (1885), p. 80), with the last issued as Cooke (1886-7), pp. 50-60.
The list is one of a number sent by Cooke that are now in the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
Please cite as “FVM-85-04-04b,” 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