Lund Schweden
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Hochgeehrter Herr Baron!
Es ist jetzt geraume Zeit lange her dass Sie von mir hörten; doch bin ich noch immer mit Algen, und zwar besonders mit australischen Algen thätig gewesen. Einigen Gattungen (Sargassen) habe ich mit vorliebe besondere Studien gewidmet; bedaure aber sehr dass eben von diesen, — welche als jung und alt, oben und unten oft ganz verschieden scheinen — beynahe immer nur Bruchstücke in den Samlungen1 vorkommen. Über die Florideen habe ich neulich an unsere Acta univers. Lundensis eine Abhandlung überliefert welche theils einige Beobachtungen über Systematik und Genera theils Beschreibungen der neuen Arten besonders von Australien die mir in der letzten Zeit vorgekommen sind, enthalten wird.
Während der langen Zeit sind mir verschiedene kleinere Sendungen zugekommen, über welche Ich Ihnen heute Auskunft geben wünschte. In mehreren von diesen Samlungen2 habe ich nur ganz gewöhnliche Species gefunden und weil die pakete oft von allen Seiten durch gestochen (bei Quarantain Behandlung) waren, kommen die Algen öfters nur in fragmente gebrochen vor. Ich habe demnach geglaubt dass solche Algen Ihnen von keinem Werth seyn mögten. Dagegen vermuthe ich dass es Ihnen wünschenswerth wäre zu wissen welche Algen in die verschiedene localitäten gefunden wären, und habe ich deshalb eine möglichst vollständige Verzeichnis der in diese Sammlungen enthaltene Species ausgeschrieben, welche Sie hier eingeschlossen finden werden.
Unter den Algen von Israeliten Bay waren dagegen mehrere von Interesse und sogar einige, die mir und wie ich glaube auch der Wissenschaft neu sind; leider aber in einzelne exemplare nur gefunden. Die eine ist eine neue Rhodophyllis die ich Rh. Brookeana genant3 habe, durch besondere Structur sehr ausgezeichnet; die andere eine neue Cliftonea Cl. imbricata! — Von den beyden sende ich Ihnen so gute Bruchstücke als der gegenwärtige Vorrath erlaubt. — Es ist sonderbar dass diese wunderbar gebauten Cliftonea-formen so selten vorkommen! Wenn Sie von den anderen in der Verzeichnis genannten Arten Exemplare wünschen solten so bitte ich mir möglichst bald darüber auskunft zu erhalten.
Die Algen von Norfolk Island sind noch nicht von mir genauer untersucht. Ich habe doch gesehen dass die nur von dieser Localität [gekannte] Plocamium hamatum, in der Samlung4 vorhanden sei und auch davon sende ich Ihnen heute ein[es]. die übrigen scheinen mehr gewöhnliche Formen anzuhören.5
Lund Sweden
30 April 1885.
Highly esteemed Baron,
It has now been a long time since you have heard from me, but I have still been occupied with algae, and Australian algae in particular. I have subjected some genera (Sargassum) for which I have a special liking to detailed studies, but regret very much that of these, — which often appear quite different as juvenile or old specimens, and from top or bottom6 — nearly always only fragments are contained in the collections. I have recently sent a paper on the Florideae to our Acta Univ. lundensis7 that contains partly some observations on systematics and genera, and partly descriptions of new species, particularly from Australia, that I received in recent times.
During this long period several smaller consignments have arrived, and today I want to provide you with information on these. In several of these collections I found only quite common species, and because the parcels were often pierced on all sides (during the quarantine treatment), the algae are frequently found broken into fragments. Consequently I thought that such algae would be of no value to you. However, I assume it would be desirable for you to know which algae were found in the various localities, and for this reason I have compiled as complete a list as possible, which you will find enclosed herewith, of the species contained in these collections.
Among the algae from Israelite Bay,8 however, were several of interest, and even some that are new to me and, I believe, also new to science, but unfortunately only found in single specimens. One of them is a new Rhodophyllis, which I have named R. brookeana, strongly characterized by its particular structure.9 The other is a new Cliftonea,10 C. imbricata!11 — Of these two species I am sending you fragments as good as the existing supply permits. It is strange, that these wonderfully structured Cliftonea species are so rarely found! If you wish to have specimens of the other named species in the list, I ask that you let me know as soon as possible.
I have not yet made a thorough examination of the algae from Norfolk Island. However, I did notice that the Plocamium hamatum, known only from this locality, is represented in the collection, and I am enclosing today some of this for you also. The others seem to belong to more common species.
Algae a Bar. F. de Mueller missae 1884-5.
[Algae sent by Baron F. von Mueller 1884-5]
1. Loco natali non expresso (forsan e Cap. Hawke)
[Place of origin not stated (perhaps from Cape Hawke)]12
Martensia gigas Harv.
2. Cap. Hawke
Ecklonia radiata
Phyllospora comosa
Sargassum spinuligerum
Cystophyllum muricatum
Curdiaea13 laciniata.
| Fragmenta | Spongiae. |
|
" |
Amphiroae. |
3. Eucla, N. Sth. Wales, Oliver.14
Caulerpa Cactoides
Ecklonia radiata
Scytothalia dorycarpa
Scaberia Agardhi
Cystophora racemosa
— — — — retroflexa
folia Sargassi — — — ?
Laurencia Forsteri
Thuretia Quercifolia
Plocamium Preissianum
fragmenta Hanoviae15
— — — Dasyae.
Macrocystis Dubeni Aresch.
5. Queenscliff18
Corallina Cuvieri
6. Deal Island near Tasmania,19 Judge Dobson20
Zoophyta (plurima)
Sphacelaria paniculata
Corallina Cuvierii
Plocamium (fragment)
Peyssonellia21 australis
Gelidium asperum
Pterocladia lucida.
7. Lutitt bay22 Mrs Beal
Kallymenia sp. K. Tasmanicae fragm.?
Martensia Gigas
Bellotia Eriophorum.
8 near St. Vincents gulf.23 Tepper.
Conferva Enteromorpha |
} | fragmenta non determ. |
[undetermined fragments]
9. Cape York, Daemel
"Chloroclados australis24 Sond"
10 Israeliten Bay, S.W. Austr: Miss S. T. Brooke25
Codium muelleri Kutz
" bursa Auct?
[the author]
Hydroclathrus cancellatus
Chordariacea (non determin)
[not determined]
Zonaria Turneriana
Sporochnus scoparius
Ecklonia radiata
Myriodesma integrifolium var.
Scytothalia dorycarpa
Cystophora racemosa
" monilifera
" Brownei26
" platylobium
" retroflexa
" subfarcinata
|
Sargassum |
Sonderi |
} |
fragment. |
|
" |
biformis27 | ||
|
" |
tristichum |
Scaberia Agardhi28
Ceramium
Dasyphila Preissii
Spyridia opposita
Plocamium preissianum
Areschougia Laurencia
Chondriopsis fragment.
Delesseria coriifolia
Corallina Cuvierii29
Gigartina disticha
Phacelocarpus Sessilis
Chrysymenia obovata
Champia pumila30
Stenocladia Sonderiana
Thysanocladia Harveyana
Hymenocladia Ramalina
Rhabdonia globifera
Mychodea pusilla J.Ag.
Wrangelia myriophylloides
Laurencia Forsteri
Polysiphonia cancellata
Dictymenia31 tridens
" Harveyana
Vidalia spiralis
Rytiphlaea elata
Tricladia australis
Polyphacum proliferum
Lenormandia spectabilis
" Muelleri
Pollexfenia pedicellata
Amansia pinnatifida
Dasya elongata (prox.)
[near]
Thuretia Quercifolia
Jania fastigiata
Mastophora Lamourouxii
Rhodophyllis Brookeana
Cliftonaea imbricata
11. Cape Portland, Tasmania Miss Baudinet
Sphacelaria paniculata
Zonaria Turneriana
Fucodium chondrophyllum
Cystophora monilifera
Ballia scoparia
Plocamium costatum
— — — — angustum
Dasyphila Preissii S.
Callophyllis coccinea Harv.
— — — — carnea var. J. Ag.
— — — — Lambertii
Areschougia Laurencia
Phacelocarpus apodus.
Nitophyllum pristoideum
Laurencia elata
Ptilonia australasica
Gelidium australe
Hymenocladiae fragm.
12. Cap Hawke, coast near Bulladelah32 — C. H. Fawcett.
Fragmenta diversa, non determ.
Amphiroae, Enteromorphae,
Zonariae nigresc.33; Cystophylli
muricati, Sargassii —
13 Norfolk Island Isaac Robinson
(not yet exactly examined).
14. East of King Georges Sound34 1884.
Codium Muelleri
Dictyota paniculata
Scytothalia dorycarpa
| Cystophora | Brownii (?) |
|
" |
monilifera |
Sargassum (fragn.)
Delisea pulchra
Pterocladia lucida
Thamnoclonium
Polyzonia incisa
Ptilota coralloidea
| Laurencia | elata |
|
" |
luxurians |
|
" |
Forsteri |
Amphiroa Charoides
Corallina Cuvierii
Plocamium Preissianum
— — nidificum
— — procerum.
List of Algae from Cape Hawke New South Wales, Ch. Fawcett.
Phyllospora comosa
Zanardinia marginata J Ag.
Gelidium corneum
Halyseris Acrostichoides J Ag.
Sargassum sp, near to S. vestitum
| fragm. of other | Sargassa |
| Jania sp. | |
| Amphiroa sp. |
List of Algae from Mouth of Bloomfield River,35 Miss Bauer.
Galaxaura sp. (perhaps G. Janioides Lamx) near to G. cylindrica)
Gracilaria lichenoides
Corallopsis Durvillei36 (Hydropuntia Durvillei Mont.)
Halimeda macroloba Harv.
incrassata Harv.
Valonia Confervoides Harv.
Zonaria nigrescens Sond.
Cystophyllum muricatum
| Sargassum | baccularia |
| lophocarpum J Ag. | |
| decurrens |
many fragments of different species
37List of Algae from Hobson bay38 — H. Watts.
1. Sarcomenia Victoriae
2. Cladophora near to Clad. Bainesii Harv.
3. Dictyota sp. (sterilis vix determ. = D. dichotoma auct.
4. Caloglossa Leprieurii Mont.
5. Dasya elongata Sond.
6. Wrangelia Ballioides J Ag.
7. Cladophora sp. (Cl. gracilis H.)
8. Nitophyllum affine Harv.
9. Erythroclonium Muelleri Sond.
10 Rhodophyllis tenuifolia?
11. Ceramium rubrum Auct. without sphaerosporae not to be determined.
12. Rhabdonia verticillata
13. Champia obsoleta
14. Acrotylus australis
15. Sargassum lophocarpum
16-7. Sargassum Sonderi J Ag.
18. folia inferiora Sargassi biformis.
Lund, 1885
J G Agardh
Acrotylus australis
Amansia pinnatifida
Amphiroa Charoides
Areschougia Laurencia
Ballia scoparia
Bellotia Eriophorum.
Callophyllis carnea
Callophyllis coccinea
Callophyllis Lambertii
Caloglossa Leprieurii
Caulerpa Cactoides
Ceramium rubrum
Champia obsoleta
Champia pumila
Chondriopsis
Chordariacea
Chloroclados australis
Cladophora Bainesii
Cladophora gracilis
Cliftonaea imbricata
Codium Muelleri
Codium bursa
Conferva
Corallina Cuvierii
Corallopsis Durvillei
Curdiaea laciniata.
Cystophora Brownei
Cystophora monilifera
Cystophora racemosa
Cystophora retroflexa
Cystophyllum muricatum
Dasya elongata
Dasyphila Preissii
Delesseria coriifolia
Delisea pulchra
Dictymenia tridens
Dictymenia Harveyana
Dictyota dichotoma
Dictyota paniculata
Ecklonia radiata
Enteromorpha
Erythroclonium Muelleri
Fucodium chondrophyllum
Galaxaura cylindrica
Galaxaura Janioides
Gelidium asperum
Gelidium australe
Gelidium corneum
Gigartina disticha
Gracilaria lichenoides
Halimeda macroloba
Halimeda incrassata
Halyseris Acrostichoides
Hanovia
Hydroclathrus cancellatus
Hydropuntia Durvillei
Hymenocladia
Jania
Jania fastigiata
Kallymenia Tasmanica
Laurencia elata
Laurencia Forsteri
Laurencia luxurians
Macrocystis Dubeni
Martensia gigas
Mastophora Lamourouxii
Mychodea pusilla
Myriodesma integrifolium
Nitophyllum affine
Nitophyllum pristoideum
Peyssonellia australis
Phacelocarpus apodus
Phyllospora comosa
Plocamium angustum
Plocamium costatum
Plocamium nidificum
Plocamium Preissianum
Plocamium procerum
Pollexfenia pedicellata
Polysiphonia cancellata
Polyzonia incisa
Pterocladia lucida
Ptilonia australasica
Ptilota coralloidea
Rhabdonia verticillata
Rhodophyllis brookeana
Rhodophyllis tenuifolia
Rytiphlaea elata
Sarcomenia Victoriae
Sargassum baccularia
Sargassum biformis
Sargassum decurrens
Sargassum lophocarpum
Sargassum Sonderi
Sargassum spinuligerum
Sargassum tristichum
Sargassum vestitum
Scaberia Agardhi
Scytothalia dorycarpa
Sphacelaria paniculata
Sporochnus scoparius
Thamnoclonium
Thuretia Quercifolia
Valonia Confervoides
Wrangelia Ballioides
Wrangelia myriophylloides
Zanardinia marginata
Zonaria nigrescens
Zonaria Turneriana
Sammlungen.
Sammlungen.
genannt?
Sammlung.
anzugehören?
The basal parts of Sargassum are usually very different from the upper parts of the frond.
J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, published 1885; see the bibliographical comment in n. 2, T. Ware to M, 12 June 1874 (in this edition as 74-06-12a).
WA.
J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, p. 54. See also M to J. Agardh, 15 June 1885 (in this edition as 85-06-15a).
i.e. Cliftonaea.
J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, pp. 115-7.
Cape Hawke, NSW, NE of Buledalah. MS annotation by M: 'Fawcett' [i.e., Charles Fawcett].
Curdiae?
John Oliver. Eucla is on the south coast of WA, not in NSW.
Hanowia in Algaebase, but spelled Hanovia in J. Agardh (1848-1901), vol. 2, p. 5 and index, although given as Hanowia where the genus is described, p. 109.
NSW.
Edward Ramsay.
Vic.
Island in Bass Strait.
William Lambert Dobson (1833-1898).
Peyssonelia?
Loutitt Bay, Lorne, Vic. This collection was sent by M with his letter to J. Agardh, 30 December 1883 (in this edition as 83-12-30a).
SA.
C. australasicus?
Sarah Brooks.
C. Brownii?
S. biforme?
S. agardhii?
C. cuvieri?
Name not found (AlgaeBase, accessed 24 March 2022).
Dictyomenia?
Bulahdelah, NSW.
nigrescens?
WA.
Qld; Ellie Bauer.
Corallopsis urvillei? Hydropuntia urvillei?
MS annotation by M above this line: 'Specimens named'.
Vic.
MS is a draft, and although the copy sent has not been found, M to J. Agardh, 15 June 1885 (in this edition as 85-06-15a) is a reply. The list appended below is held at RB MSS M108a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, and may not be the one to which Agardh refers in his letter. However, the reference to the Norfolk Island specimens makes it likely that it is.
Please cite as “FVM-85-04-30,” 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