From Mordecai Cooke to Ferdinand von Mueller   [Apr 1886]

Cochlearia.

SA.

Not in FNI. Index fungorum give Linnaeus as the author, not Bulliard.

Pustularia.

FNI gives Batsch as the author, not Fries; Vic.

FNI gives Sommerfelt as the author, not Fries.

Grazing property near Gulgong, NSW.

WA.

Qld.

Vic.

NSW.

i.e. Toowoomba, Qld.

Qld.

Vic.

Cooke has a squiggled vertical mark against these two lines of text.

Vic.

In FNI as Agaricus cassiicolor, of which Index fungorum treats A. cassiaecolor, the spelling used in Cooke (1892), p. 59, as an orthographic variant.

FNI gives Linnaeus as the author, not Fries; Vic.

S. sowerbei?

In neither FNI nor Cooke (1892) but listed in Index fungorum from Saccardo (1882-1931), vol 6, p. 149 where it is included in a list under 'Species nobis ignotae' [Species unknown to us].

Psalliota.

FNI gives Batsch as the author, not Fries.

This is the last entry on the page.

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'H'.

Astrolabe Bay?

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'O'.

Pleurotus.

i.e. Yarra River, Vic.

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'N'.

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'D'.

Hexagonia?

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'L'.

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'B'.

Vic.

Gippsland, Vic.

Vic.

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

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'M'.

There is an ink ✓ to the left of 'G'.

FNI gives Cooke, note Berkeley, as the author of the name.

In FNI as Geastrum filiforme, which Index fungorum gives as an orthographic variant.

Vic. This is the last entry on p. 2.

Vic.

There is an ink ✓ to the left of '54'. Qld.

Blue Mountains, NSW?

NSW.

WA.

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

See Cooke (1892), p. 137, under Polystictus, section a.

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

FNI gives Persoon, not Fries, as the author of the name; Index fungorum and Cooke (1892), p. 27, give Bulliard.

Not in FNI, but in Cooke (1892), p. 60, where the author is given as Schaeffer.

Presumably in the sense of 'rancid' or 'withered', see OED.

WA? M is known to have had contact with a grazier in the area, see B85.08.01.

Not in FNI, but in Cooke (1892), p. 277.

Qld, see Cooke (1885a), p. 90.

Carl Hartmann collected widely in Queensland, and in 1885 and 1887 in New Guinea; it is not known whence this specimen came, although there is an 1886 specimen of the following item, listed as from Hartmann, in the herbarium at Melbourne (MEL 2015602).

Hexagonia?

NSW region.

FNI gives Weinmann, not Fries, as the author of this name.

FNI gives O. F. Müller, not Fries, as the author of this name.

This is the final entry on p. 3.

X. delestrei?

SA? There is also a Stuart's Bluff Range in NT.

Between Qld and Papua New Guinea.

There is an ink ✓ to the left of '56'. Initial overwritten, apparently to change 'Fr' to 'M'.

It is not clear whether the horizontal line under the number is indicating a separation of the list.

Battarrea?

WA.

NSW.

Not in FNI, but in Cooke (1892), p. 320.

This is the final entry. There is a centered wavy line from below this entry to the bottom of the page.

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 four pages. The bottom of the first page is annotated in pencil by J. H. Willis: post 6 June 1885; the bottom of each page is numbered in pencil in large numerals in what may be another hand. There is a mostly illegible pencilled note at the top left corner, '[... ... ...] QL list'.

The list is dated to April 1886 as the latest that it could have been sent for M to be able to report Cooke's identifications of items 896, 891, 895 and 893 in M to O. Tepper, 31 May 1886 (in this edition as 86-05-31b). Species new to Victoria were listed in B86.10.05.

See notes to M. Cooke to M, 17 January 1885 for a discussion of Cooke's author attributions.

FNI and Index fungorum were accessed on 11 May 2021.