From Mordecai Cooke to Ferdinand von Mueller 26 Mar 1889

Australian Fungi March 1888 to Mar 1889


	Puccinia dichondrae B	C French¹
	Scleroderma verrucosum Fr²	Centr. Austr. Bauerlen
	Daldinia concentrica Not³	Kings Island⁴
1	Boletus luteus Fr⁵	Tisdall's Drawings
2	Ag (Lepiota) holosericeus Fr?⁶
3	Ag (Tricholoma) putidus Fr?
4	Ag (Panaeolus) fimicola Fr⁷
5	= No 2
6	Ag (Psathyrella) disseminatus Fr⁸
7	Immature
8	= No 6
9	= No 13
10	Peziza stercorea Fr⁹
11	Ag (Psalleota) arvensis Schff
12	Insufficient for determination
13	Ag (Amanita) gemmatus Fr¹⁰
14	Ag (Flammula) crociphyllus C&M
15	Ag (Nolanea) mammosus Fr¹¹
16	Ag (Mycena) uncertain¹²
17	Too young
18	Boletus, information insufficient
19	Polystictus oblectans B
20	Stereum hirsutum Fr¹³
21	Polystictus oblectans Fr
22	Ag (Collybia) olivaceo-albus C&M
23	Ag (Volvaria) speciosus Fr
24	Not determinable
25	Ag (Inocybe) probably¹⁴
26	Looks like a Cortinarius
27	Ag (Pleurotus) salignus Fr Junior¹⁵
28	Ag (Naucoria) pusillus Fr
	/¹⁶
29	Cantharellus pusio Fr¹⁷	Tisdalls	Drawings
30	Ag (Omphalia) pyxidatus Fr¹⁸		Do
31	Ag (Mycena) capillaris Schum		Do
32	Ag (Clitocybe) myriophyllus C&M		Do
33	Probably Ag (Amanita) without base		Do
34	Hygrophorus subremotus C&M		Do
35	Ag (Pleurotus) applicatus Batsch		Do
36	^{. .}		Do
37	Ag (Collybia) rancidus Fr		Do
38	Immature Coprinus		Do
39	Ag (Flammula)?		Do
40	Ag (Inocybe) flocculosus B		Do
/¹⁹
36	Sclerotium	New England		Crawford
	No fungus	Do		Do
	Ustilago Cesatii Wald	Murray River
	Eurotium herbariorum Lk²⁰	Ord River²¹
	Harpographium coryneloides C	Near Berwick²²
	Oidium Lycopersici C & M	On Tomato
1	Polyporus infernalis B	Dandenong
2	Calocera digitata C & M	Do
3	Polyporus adustus Fr	Do
4	Ag (Pleurotus) limpidus Fr	Do
5	Ag (Panaeolus) fimiputris Fr²³	Do
6	Ophionectria agaricicola B	Do
7	Ag (Galera) hypnorum Fr²⁴	Do
8	Ag (Pholiota) sp	Do
9	Ag (Inocybe) flocculosus B prox	Do
	Phallus in the egg stage	Port Phillip²⁵
	Rotting fruit of Pangium no fungus
41	Hygrophorus gigasporus C&M	Walhalla²⁶
42	Boletus section indeterminable	Do
43	Polyporus arcularius Fr	Do
44	Ag (Hebeloma) arenicolor C & M²⁷	Do
45	Agaricus to immature to determine	Walhalla
46	Do ^{–----------------------------------------------------}.	Do
47	Bolbitius fragilis Fr	Do
48	Ag (Entoloma) galbineus C&M²⁸	Do
49	Ag (Hebeloma) arenicolor C&M [J]unior²⁹	Do
50	Ag (Hebelona) petiginosus Fr	Do
51	Agaricus immature	Do
52	Peziza impossible to determine from drawing	Do
53	Polyporus section only	Do
54	Ag (Leptoma) quinquecolor C&M	Do
55	Boletus indeterminable	Do
56	Do ^{–-------------------------------}.	Do
57	Hygrophorus scarlatinus Kalch	Do
58	Ag (Mycena) rosellus Fr	Do
59	Clavaria rosea Fr³⁰	Do
60	Clavaria botrytis Fr abnormal³¹	Do
61	Young Boletus indeterminable	Do
62	Mycelium	Do
63	Morbid state of some stroma	Do
64	Ag (Psathyrella) disseminatus Fr³²	Do
65	No specimens	Do
66	Paxillus panuoides Fr	Do
67	No spores too young	Do
68	Ag (Psilocybe) cernuus Fr³³	Do
69	Polyporus Braunii Rab	Do
70	Possibly sterile Merulius	Do
71	Rhizomorpha³⁴	Do
72	Sterile stroma perhaps Xylaria	Do
73	Barren mycelium of Lentinus?	Do
74	Himantia state of mycelium	Do
//
	Cucurbitaria plagia C&M	Port Phillip³⁵
	Lycoperdon stellatum C&M	Israelite Bay³⁶
	Boletus luteus Fr³⁷	Do
	Ag (Flammula) purpureo-nitens C&M	Do
22	Favolus rhipidium B	Shoalhaven³⁸
24	Hirneola polytricha	Do
21	Cordyceps gunnii B³⁹	Do
	Guepinia fissa B	? New Guinea
	Ag (Collybia) velutipes Curt	Gembrook Range⁴⁰
23	Ag (Pluerotus) limpidus Fr	Shoalhaven
	Stereum lobatum Kze	Richmond River⁴¹
98	Lentinus blepharodes B	N Guinea
99	Hirneola auriformis Fr	Do
24	Hexagona⁴² similis B	Shoalhaven
	Geaster lugubris Kal	Upper Swan River⁴³
	Cladoderris dendritica	New Guinea
	Asterina subcuticulosa C	Gipps Land⁴⁴
	Xylaria agariciformis⁴⁵ C&M	Great Bight⁴⁶
	Cyathus vernicosus DC	Do

March 26. 1889

M C Cooke

Agaricus (Amanita) gemmatus

Agaricus (Clitocybe) myriophyllus

Agaricus (Collybia) olivaceo-albus

Agaricus (Collybia) rancidus

Agaricus (Collybia) velutipes

Agaricus (Entoloma) galbineus

Agaricus (Flammula) crociphyllus

Agaricus (Flammula) purpureo-nitens

Agaricus (Galera) hypnorum

Agaricus (Hebeloma) arenicolor

Agaricus (Hebelona) petiginosus

Agaricus (Inocybe) flocculosus

Agaricus (Lepiota) holosericeus

Agaricus (Leptoma) quinquecolor

Agaricus (Mycena) capillaris

Agaricus (Mycena) rosellus

Agaricus (Naucoria) pusillus

Agaricus (Nolanea) mammosus

Agaricus (Omphalia) pyxidatus

Agaricus (Panaeolus) fimicola

Agaricus (Panaeolus) fimiputris

Agaricus (Pholiota)

Agaricus (Pleurotus) applicatus

Agaricus (Pleurotus) limpidus

Agaricus (Pleurotus) salignus

Agaricus (Psalleota) arvensis

Agaricus (Psathyrella) disseminatus

Agaricus (Psilocybe) cernuus

Agaricus (Tricholoma) putidus

Agaricus (Volvaria) speciosus

Asterina subcuticulosa

Bolbitius fragilis

Boletus luteus

Calocera digitata

Cantharellus pusio

Cladoderris dendritica

Clavaria botrytis

Clavaria rosea

Coprinus

Cordyceps gunnii

Cortinarius

Cucurbitaria plagia

Cyathus vernicosus

Daldinia concentrica

Eurotium herbariorum

Favolus rhipidium

Geaster lugubris

Guepinia fissa

Harpographium coryneloides

Hexagona similis

Himantia

Hirneola auriformis

Hirneola polytricha

Hygrophorus gigasporus

Hygrophorus scarlatinus

Hygrophorus subremotus

Lentinus blepharodes

Lycoperdon stellatum

Merulius

Oidium Lycopersici

Ophionectria agaricicola

Pangium

Paxillus panuoides

Peziza stercorea

Phallus

Polyporus adustus

Polyporus arcularius

Polyporus Braunii

Polyporus infernalis

Polystictus oblectans

Puccinia dichondrae

Rhizomorpha

Scleroderma verrucosum

Sclerotium

Stereum hirsutum

Stereum lobatum

Ustilago Cesatii

Xylaria agariciformis

'French, C.' collected a specimen of Puccinia dichondrae in November 1887 from Cheltenham, Vic (MEL 1054152). This is probably Charles French Snr, but his son Charles H. French also collected fungi, including some before 1889.

FNI attributes the combination to Persoon, not Fries.

i.e. De Not. (= Guiseppe de Notararis).

King Island, Bass Strait, Tas.

FNI attributes the name to Linnaeus, not Fries.

Cooke uses the abbreviation 'Ag' for 'Agaricus' many times in the list. FNI does not report infrageneric names.

FNI attributes the name to Persoon, not Fries.

In FNI as Amanita gemmata, attributed to Gillet, not Fries.

FNI attributes the name to Linnaeus, not Fries.

FNI does not report infrageneric names; but Cooke (1892), pp. 22 ff. includes more than twenty species in Agaricus sub-genus Mycena.

FNI attributes the combination to Persoon, not Fries.

FNI does not report infrageneric names; but Cooke (1892), pp. 46-45 includes seven species in Agaricus sub-genus Inocybe.

FNI attributes the combination to Persoon, not Fries.

'Junior' in the sense of young or immature. See Phillips (1878) where Cooke in a 'Note on the above' wrote, in a discussion refuting the assertion, 'Dr. Quelet says that our Ag. atropunctus is his Omphalia atro-puncta (junior), and the Hygrophorus is his Omphalia atropuncta (vetustior)' p. 75. There are other instances in Cooke's publications where 'junior' is used in this sense; see for example Cooke (1885-6), p. 20, and Cooke (1892d), p. 106. (The editors are indebted to Dr Tom W. May for clarification of Cooke's usage in referring to younger versus older specimens.)

Cooke ends the page with a pencilled sloping line.

FNI attributes the name to Berkeley, not Fries.

FNI attributes the name to Persoon, not Fries.

Cooke has separated this list from the following items by a sloping line between '40' and '36'.

Not in FNI but in Cooke (1892), p. 313.

WA.

Harpographium corynelioides? Vic.

FNI attributes the name to Bulliard, not Fries.

FNI attributes the name to Schrank, not Fries.

Vic.

This is the final entry on p. 2.

Tisdall's drawings (now in the library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, RB MSS A31) are sometimes accompanied by specimens, as in this case, shown here as an example of his material. Cooke's added notes to left of specimen and identification at bottom of frame; Tisdall's notes below the frame. The dimensions of Tisdall's pencilled frame are 22.9 X 10.2 cm. 89-03-26a_image01.jpg

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For 'Junior', see notes above for entry '30 Ag (Omphalia) pyxidatus Fr'.

FNI attributes the name to Dalman, not Fries.

FNI attributes the name to Persoon, not Fries.

FNI attributes the name to Vahl, not Fries.

Not in FNI; in Index fungorum.

Last entry on page 3.

WA.

FNI attributes the name to Linnaeus, not Fries.

NSW.

Genus in neither FNI nor Cooke (1892); in Index fungorum

Vic.

NSW.

Hexagonia?

In Index fungorum as an orthographic variant of Geastrum lugubre. WA.

Vic.

Not in FNI, but in Cooke (1892), p. 288.

Southern coast of WA and SA.

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 back of each comprising either a MS extract from a publication on a species of fungus, or a pasted-on entry from a published text containing a description, all which have been struck through by Cooke. The species abstracted are not on this list. The bottom of the first page is annotated in pencil by J. H. Willis: '26 Mar. 1889'; the bottom of sheets 2, 3, and 4 are numbered in pencil in what may be another hand, although the numerals resemble large versions of Cooke's numbers in the list.

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 14 May 2021.

Please cite as “FVM-89-03-26a,” 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/89-03-26a

From Mordecai Cooke to Ferdinand von Mueller 26 Mar 1889

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