From Jacob Agardh to Ferdinand von Mueller   29 Sep 1889

Lund, Schweden, 29 Sept. 1889.

Hochgeehrter Herr Baron!

Seitdem ich jetzt mit der Bestimmung der diesjährigen mir zugesandten Samlungen1 so ziemlich fertig bin, erlaube ich mir Ihnen darüber Auskunft zu geben in beiliegende speciche2 Verzeichnisse.

Unter diejenigen Samlungen, die in der Nähe von alten, mehr durchgesuchte, Localitäten herstammen, ist wohl kaum etwas neues zu erwarten. Demnach wurde ich aus Tasmanien, wo R. Gunn so ausgezeichnete Samlungen zusammen brachte, kaum was neues erwarten. Doch habe ich unter den Algen von Miss Lodder eine neue Ptilonia (Pt. subulifera) gefunden, von der ein fragment von Wilson gesammelt, in eine nach Sonder übersandte Samlung sich doch schon vorfindet. Von Ptil. australasica ist sie leicht zu unterscheiden; hat aber in Habitus und Structur mit Ectoclinium dentatum grosse Ähnlichkeit — aber die cystocarpia ganz verschiedene. Unter den Algen von Miss Lodder ist auch wie es mir scheint eine neue art von Ecklonia, von der ich eine kleines fragment übersende. Es wäre mir sehr lieb ein vollständiges Exemplar davon beschreiben zu können als Ecklonia Loddersiana.

In der ziemlich bedeutende Samlung von Port Fairy ist kaum was neues. Auch die kleine Samlung von Streaky Bay scheint kaum was seltenes zu enthalten. Die Samlung von Johnston River enthält nur einige wenige Arten, die ich noch nicht genau untersuchte. Dagegen waren in den Samlungen von Geographe bay und besonders die von Champion bay mehrere Algen von besond. Interesse.

Unter den Algen aus Geographe bay fand ich eine Rese von einer neuen Art von Curdiea, die in habitus der Curd. coriacea aus N. Zeeland sehr nahe kommt, aber hat cystocarpia pedunculata. Auch eine neue Lenormandia (L. hypoglossum) ganz wie eine Delesseria aussehend, war darunter.

Aus der Champion bay enthielt die von Dr Elliott gesandte Samlung eine neue Art von Dilophus, durch spiralförmig gewundene frons leicht zu unterscheiden; eine neue Art von Vidalia (V. intermedia); und sonst die von Lamouroux gesehene, kaum beschriebene, Amansia mamillaris, von der, so viel ich weiss, nur das einzige Exemplar von Lamouroux bis jetzt gefunden wurde; von der die genauere Localität bis jetzt nicht bekannt war.

Von der durch Spalding gemachte Samlung, welche als von vermoderten und mit dem papier auf beyde Seiten zusammen geklebten Algen fast als unbrauchbar bezeichnet wurde, ist es mir doch geglückt mehrere Seltenheiten zu ausprepariren. Es sind darunter einige specimina von Lenormandia latifolia Harv. her. welche er nachher als variet. zu L. spectabilis brachte, aber eine ganz verschiedene Art zu seyn scheint; und die schon früher hier oben bezeichnete L. hypoglossum.

Ich habe wohl bemerkt dass Miss Lodder neben die numerirte Specimina, auch andere nicht mit Nos bezeichnete übergesandt habe, und dass sie wunscht von diesen letzteren ein Stuck mit Nahmen zurückgesandt zu erhalten. Aber eben unter diesen sind mehrere grössere algen (Cystophora-arten) welche sie nach fragmente kaum unterscheiden wurde. Ich habe es gewiss leichter solche Algen nach fragmente zu benennen. Ich glaube demnach die alte Methode, numerirte exemplare hieher zu senden, vorzuziehen sei.

Mit bestem Grusse

Ihr

J G Agardh

Algae from Aestuary of the Leven North Tasmania a Miss Lodder lectae.

[collected by Miss Lodder]3

1.

Sporochnus pedunculatus

2.

Polysiphonia cladostephus

3.

Gelidium australe

4-5

vacant

6.

Plocamium flexuosum

7.

Ptilota articulata

8.

Champia Tasmanica

9.

vacat.

[vacant.]

10.

Halyseris Muelleri4

11.

vacat.

12.

Chorda lomentar. forma auct.5

13.

Callophyllis coccinea

14.

Ptilonia subulifera J. Ag.

15-16.

Callophyllis coccinea

17.

vacat.

18.

Cystophorae fragmenta in quibus sp. Callithamnii.

[in which there are Callithamnion species]

19.

Ceramium diaph. auct.?6

20-22.

vacant

23.

Wrangelia clavigera

24.

Peyssonellia7 australis

25.

Pterocladia lucida

26.

Ptilonia australasica

27.

Rhodophyllis sp. Rhod. membranacea forma?

28.

Laurencia Forsteri

29.

30

Caulerpa Brownii

31-32

vacant

33.

Ballia callitricha

34.

Laurencia elata

35.

Polysiphonia cancellata

36.-37.

Plocamium costatum

38.

= 36. cui inest8 Phacelocarpus

39.

Plocamium procerum

40

Griffithsia elongata

41.

Sphacelaria paniculata

42.

Wrangelia clavigera

43-44.

Plocamium angustatum

45.

Corallina Cuvierii9

46

Amphiroa charoides

47-48

vacant

etc.

—
not numbered:
Zoophyta varia
Cladophora sp.
Ulva rigida
Valonia (Dictyosphaeria favulosa
Caulerpae fragmenta
Cladostephus australis
Ecklonia? sp. nov.

—

radiata.
Cystophora paniculata

—

spartioides

—

retorta

—

siliquosa
Sargassum Sonderi
Sargassum Sonderi
Fucus chondrophyllus
Splachnidium rugosum
Zonaria Turneriana
Halyseris Muelleri10
Polysiphonia Hystrix

—

cancellata
Rytiphlaea elata
Dasya Feredayae
Pollexfenia pedicellata
Dictymenia11 Harveyana
Lenormandia prolifera
Coeloclonium Opuntioides
Melanthalia obtusata
Areschougia Laurencia
Mychodea hamata
Gelidium glandulaefolium
Gigartina flabellata

—

pinnata
and several others, in fragmente.

J G Agardh

Algae ex Port Fairy a Rev. W. Whan lectae sub 16/5. 1889 a Bar. Ferd. Mueller mihi missae

[Algae from Port Fairy collected by Rev. W. Whan on 16 May 1889 and sent by Baron Ferd. Mueller to me].12

1.

Plocamium Preissianum

2.

Ptilota Rhodocallis

3.

Phacelocarpus complanatus

4.

Ptilota Jeanneretti

5.

Plocamium dilatatum

6.

Thysanocladia laxa

7.

Phacelocarpus Labillardieri

8.

Ptilota articulata }13

8.

Phacelocarpus sessilis

9.

Laurencia elata

10.

Callophyllis Lambertii

11.

Nizzymenia14 australis

12-15.

Ballia callitricha

16.

Melanthalia concinna

17.

do —

do —

18

Cladostephus verticillatus australis15

19.

Rhodophyllis multipartita

20

Laurencia Forsteri

21.

Gelidium glandulaefolium

22.

Zonaria Turneriana? forma

23.

Cladostephus australis }

23.

Ptilota Rhodocallis

24

Plocamium angustum

25.

Areschougia Stuartii }

25.

Melanthalia concinna

26.

Lobospira bicuspidata

27.

Zonaria stuposa?

28

Laurencia Forsteri

29.

Caulerpa Hypnoides

30.

Plocamium procerum

31.

Plocam. costatum

32.

Plocamium procerum

33.

Nitophyllum affine?

34

Enteromorpha compressa sec. auct.

35.

Ulva rigida

36.

Bryopsis arbuscula

37

Pterocladia lucida

38

Plocamium nidificum

39.

Ectoclinium dentatum

40

Chorda Lomentaria auct.?16

41.

Haloplegma Preissii

42.-43

Phacelocarpus Labillardieri

44.

Thuretia Quercifolia

45.

Gelidium glandulaefolium

46

Zonaria canaliculata

47.

Polyopes constrictus

48

Seirococcus axillaris

49.

Scytothalia dorycarpa

50

Melanthalia obtusata

51.

Scaberia Agardhi17

52.

Ptilota articulata

53.

Plocamium angustum

54.

Callithamnion

55.

56

Zonaria microphylla

57.

Caulerpa Harveyi

58

Pterocladia lucida

59.

Seirococcus axillaris

60

Rhodophyllis multipartita

61.

Haloplegma Preissii

62-63

Mastophora Lamourouxii

64.

fragm. vix determ. an Curdiaea

[fragment scarcely determined towards Curdiaea]

65

Curdiaea18 laciniata

66.

Cystophora monilifera

67.

an fragm. Melanthalia?

68

Gelidium glandulaefolium

69.

idem.

70.

vacat.

71.

Cystoph. micromera19 J Ag.

72

Caulerpa Sonderi

73.

Cystophora polycystidea

74.

Gelidum glandulaefolium

75

Laurencia sp. an Laur. heterocladae forma?

[towards the form of Laur. Heteroclada]

76.

Sargassum Sonderi

77.

Sphacelaria paniculata

78.

Cystophora siliquosa

79.

Corallina Cuvieri

80

Polyopes constrictus

81.

Caulerpa Brownii

82.

Ptilota fragm.

82

Ballia Robertiana

83

Phacelocarpus sessilis

84.

Rhodophyllis multipartita

85.

Plocamium costatum

86.

Conferva sp. vix cert. determ.

[scarcely determined with certainty]

87.

Ulva rigida

88

Laurencia an L. heteroclada (in qua Ulva

[towards L. heteroclada (there being Ulva in it)]

89.

Laurencia elata

90.

Padina Commersoni

91.

Gelidium glandulaefolium

92.

Cystophora siliquosa

93.

— — — — — subfarcinata

94

— —

subfarcinata

95.

Peyssonellia20 multifida

96.

Cystophora platylobium

97.

Griffithsia Sonderiana21

98

Griffithsia thyrsigera?

99.

Callophyllis Lambertii

100

Conferva Darwini

101.

Laurencia sp. an L. heteroclada forma.

102.

Laurencia elata

103.

Polyopes constrictus.

104.

Caulerpa Hypnoides.

—

sine numero (an no 70?) Acrotylus australis

J G Agardh

Algae ex Streaky bay, ad J. P. Dowling 1889 collectae

[Algae collected from Streaky Bay by J. P. Dowling 1889].

Sargassum varians.

—

biforme (fragm.)?
Cystophora Brownii

—

retorta

—

Monilifera
Scaberia Agardhi22
Zonaria Turneriana
Caulerpa Brownii
Dasyphila Preissii
Haloplegma Preissii
Plocamium flexuosum

— — —

coccineum form.

— — —

Preissianum

— — —

Nidificum
Hymenocladia divaricata
Phacelocarpus Sessilis
Calophyllis Lambertii
Laurencia Forsteri
Sarcomenia Delesserioides
Alsidium Comosum
Polysiphonia Cancellata
Thuretia Quercifolia
Dasya }

fragmenta

[fragments]

Pollexfenia

J G Agardh

Algae ex Champion bay W. Austral. sub 1889 a Spalding lectae

[Algae collected from Champion Bay, Western Australia 1889 by Spalding].

Sargassum falcat.23

—

isophyllum

—

biforme

Cystophora monilifera

Myriodesma latifolium?

Ecklonia radiata

Halyseris sp. (H. Muelleri?)24

Acropeltis Phyllophora

Plocamium Preissianum

— — —

nidificum
Hymenocladia linearis

— — — —

lanceolata

Thysanocladia oppositifolia

Rhodophyllis membranacea

—

blepharicarpa

—

Nitophylloides.

Rhabdonia globifera

Hypnea sp.

Laurencia (L. heteroclada forma)

Kuetzingia canaliculata

—

angusta

Polyzonia incisa

Polysiphonia cancellata

Lenormandia latifolia

Vidalia intermedia

J G Agardh

Algae from Geographe bay a Mrs Irvine lectae,1889 mihi missae

[Algae from Geographe Bay collected by Mrs Irvine sent to me in 1889].

Cystophora racemosa

—

Grevillei

—

monilifera

Platythalia Quercifolia

Zonaria Sinclairii?

Cladostephus verticillatus forma australis

Caulerpa Cactoides

—

Brownii

—

Sonderi

—

Hypnoides

Ballia callitricha

Ptilota coralloidea

Gigartina disticha

Callophyllis coccinea

—

Lambertii
Plocamium procerum

—

coccineum?

—

angustum

—

nidificum
Phacelocarpus sessilis

—

Labillardieri

Curdiaea nov. sp.?

Gracillaria furcellata?

Stenocladia Sonderiana

fragment of Nitophyllum

Gelidium patens

Pterocladia lucida

Hypnea episcopalis

Laurencia Forsteri

—

heteroclada

—

luxurians

fragm. of Rhodomela

Trigenea australis

Polyzonia incisa

Lenormandia hypoglossum J Ag.

Sarcomenia Delesserioides

Corallina Cuvierii25

Amphiroa Charoides

Mastophora Lamourouxii

J G Agardh

Algae ex Champion Bay, sub 1889 a Dr Elliott lectae

[Algae from Champion Bay 1889 collected by Dr Elliott26].

Lobospira bicuspidata.

Dilophus moniliformis J. Ag. nov. sp.

Ptilota coralloidea

Phacelocarpus alatus?

Stenocladia Sonderiana

Calliblepharis pannosa

Plocamium Preissianum

—

nidificum

Hymenocladia Ramalina?

Thysanocladia oppositifolia

Rhodophyllis sp.?

—

Nitophylloides.
Erythroclonium Sonderi

— — —

pyriferum

Pterocladia lucida

Kützingia angusta

Amansia mamillaris.

Vidalia intermedia J Ag.

Mastophora Lamourouxii

J G Agardh

Algae ex Ulverstone Tasmaniae a D. W. Spencer 1889 collectae

[Algae from Ulverstone, Tasmania collected 1889 by D.W. Spencer].27

Cystophora retorta

Fucus chondrophyllus.

Macrocystis (fragm. […])

Sargassum varians

Zonaria Turneriana

Plocamium angustum

— — —

costatum

Thamnoclonium claviferum

Gelidium glandulaefolium

Ptilonia australasica

Laurencia Forsteri

Amphiroa charoides

Corallina Cuvieri.

J G Agardh

Lund, Sweden, 29 September 1889

Highly esteemed Baron!

Since I am now pretty well finished with the determination of the collections sent to me this year, I venture to give you information about them in the enclosed specific list.

Among those collections that come from old more searched localities there is probably hardly anything new to be expected. Therefore I would not expect hardly anything new from Tasmania where R. Gunn brought together such excellent collections. However among the algae from Miss Lodder28 I have found a new Ptilonia (Pt. subulifera), of which a fragment collected by Wilson29 was already found in a collection sent to Sonder. It is easily differentiated from Ptil. australasica; but in habitus and structure has great similarity to Ectoclinium dentatum - but the cystocarp is quite different. As it seems to me there is also a new species of Ecklonia among the algae of Miss Lodder, of which I send a small fragment. I would be glad to be able to describe a complete specimen of it as Ecklonia loddersiana.30

In the rather considerable collection from Port Fairy there is hardly anything new. Also the small collection from Streaky Bay seems to contain hardly anything rare. The collection from Johnston River31 contains only a few species that I have not yet closely investigated. On the other hand several algae of special interest were in the collections from Geographe Bay and especially that from Champion Bay.

Among the algae from Geographe Bay I found a [tendril] of a new species of Curdiea that comes very close to Curd. coriacea from New Zealand in habitus, but has pedunculate cystocarps. Also a new Lenormandia (L. hypoglossum) looking quite like a Delesseria was among them.

The collection from Champion Bay that Dr Elliott32 sent contained a new species of Dilophus, easy to differentiate by the spirally wound frond; a new species of Vidalia (V. intermedia); and the otherwise barely described Amansia mamillaris seen by Lamouroux, of which, as far as I know, only the single specimen of Lamouroux has been found until now; of which the more exact locality was previously not known.

Of the collection made by Spalding, which was indicated as almost unusable as of algae decayed and stuck together with the paper on both sides, I did manage to prepare out several rarities. Among them are some specimens of Lenormandia latifilia Harv. Nereis,33 which he afterwards relegated to a variety of L. spectabilis, but seems to be a quite different species; and L. hypoglossum. already mentioned above.

I have probably mentioned that Miss Lodder has also sent together with the numbered specimens, others not with numbers and that she wants a piece of these latter with names sent back to keep. However, just among these are several larger algae (Cystophora species) that she would hardly differentiate from fragments. I certainly have it easier to name such algae from fragments. I therefore think the old method to send numbered specimens here is preferable.

With best greetings

Your

J.G. Agardh

[List follows as above]

Calliblepharis pannosa

Acropeltis Phyllophora

Alsidium comosum

Amansia mamillaris

Amphiroa charoides

Areschougia Laurencia

Areschougia Stuartii

Ballia callitricha

Ballia Robertiana

Bryopsis arbuscula

Callithamnion

Callithamnion

Callophyllis coccinea

Callophyllis Lambertii

Caulerpa Brownii

Caulerpa Harveyi

Caulerpa Hypnoides

Caulerpa Sonderi

Ceramium diaphanum

Champia Tasmanica

Chorda Lomentaria

Cladophora

Cladostephus australis

Cladostephus verticillatus australis

Coeloclonium Opuntioides

Conferva Darwini

Corallina Cuvieri

Corallina Cuvierii

Curdiaea laciniata

Curdiea coriacea

Cystophora Brownii

Cystophora micromera

Cystophora monilifera

Cystophora paniculata

Cystophora platylobium

Cystophora polycystidea

Cystophora retorta

Cystophora siliquosa

Cystophora spartioides

Cystophora subfarcinata

Dasya Feredayae

Dasyphila Preissii

Delesseria

Dictymenia Harveyana

Dictyosphaeria favulosa

Ecklonia loddersiana

Ecklonia radiata

Ectoclinium dentatum

Enteromorpha compressa

Fucus chondrophyllus

Gelidium australe

Gelidium glandulaefolium

Gigartina disticha

Gigartina flabellata

Gigartina pinnata

Griffithsia elongata

Griffithsia Sonderiana

Griffithsia thyrsigera

Haloplegma Preissii

Halyseris Muelleri

Hymenocladia divaricata

Hymenocladia lanceolata

Hymenocladia linearis

Hypnea

Kuetzingia angusta

Kuetzingia canaliculata

Laurencia elata

Laurencia Forsteri

Laurencia heteroclada

Lenormandia hypoglossum

Lenormandia latifolia

Lenormandia prolifera

Lenormandia spectabilis

Lobospira bicuspidata

Mastophora Lamourouxii

Melanthalia

Melanthalia concinna

Melanthalia obtusata

Mychodea hamata

Myriodesma latifolium

Nitophyllum affine

Nizzymenia australis

Padina Commersoni

Peyssonellia australis

Peyssonellia multifida

Phacelocarpus complanatus

Phacelocarpus Labillardieri

Phacelocarpus sessilis

Plocamium angustatum

Plocamium angustum

Plocamium coccineum

Plocamium costatum

Plocamium dilatatum

Plocamium flexuosum

Plocamium nidificum

Plocamium Preissianum

Plocamium procerum

Pollexfenia pedicellata

Polyopes constrictus

Polysiphonia cancellata

Polysiphonia cladostephus

Polysiphonia Hystrix

Polyzonia incisa

Pterocladia lucida

Ptilonia australasica

Ptilonia subulifera

Ptilota articulata

Ptilota Jeanneretti

Ptilota Rhodocallis

Rhabdonia globifera

Rhodophyllis blepharicarpa

Rhodophyllis membranacea

Rhodophyllis multipartita

Rhodophyllis Nitophylloides

Rytiphlaea elata

Sarcomenia Delesserioides

Sargassum biforme

Sargassum falcatatum

Sargassum isophyllum

Sargassum Sonderi

Sargassum varians

Scaberia Agardhi

Scytothalia dorycarpa

Seirococcus axillaris

Sphacelaria paniculata

Splachnidium rugosum

Sporochnus pedunculatus

Thuretia Quercifolia

Thysanocladia laxa

Thysanocladia oppositifolia

Ulva

Ulva rigida

Valonia

Vidalia intermedia

Wrangelia clavigera

Zonaria canaliculata

Zonaria microphylla

Zonaria stuposa

Zonaria Turneriana

Sammlungen; spelled incorrectly throughout the letter.

specifische [spezifische]?

Translations within the list are placed in [ ] below the line in which the original appears. See also M. Lodder to M, 23 December 1889 (in this edition as 89-12-23a).

In AlgaeBase (accessed 12 September 2020) as Haliseris muelleri, quoting Sonder (1852), p. 665, where the genus is, as here, spelled Halyseris.

No form of Chorda lomentaria described by J. Agardh is listed in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).

Ceramium diaphanum? There is also a Ceramium diaphanoides but this was described by Kützing, not by Agardh as indicated by ‘auct.’.

Peyssonelia?

in which Phacelocarpus is present.

Corallina cuvieri?

See n. 4, above.

Dictyomena?

Letter not found, nor any reference to the sending of specimens on this date.

The specimens sent under this number constituted a mixed collection of two vegetatively somewhat similar-looking species, see images of specimens at the Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University https://storage.idigbio.org/fh/macroalgae/FH00903/FH00903577.jpg and https://storage.idigbio.org/fh/macroalgae/FH00909/FH00909068.jpg.

Nizymenia?

This variety not found in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).

No form of Chorda lomentaria described by J. Agardh is listed in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).

S. agardhii?

Curdiea?

Neither Cystophera micromera nor Cystophyllum micromera in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).

Peyssonelia?

Griffithsia Sonderiana not in AlgaeBase (accessed 26 July 2018).

S. agardhii?

S. falcatatum.

See n. 4, above.

Corallina cuvieri?

Charles Elliott.

Neither this collection or its collector has been mentioned in either the cover letter above or in any other surviving correspondence between M and J. Agardh, but the list was most likely included here. An effectively identical list is filed with J. Agardh to M, 4 May 1890.

M sent two packets of Lodder's algae collections to Agardh; see M to J. Agardh, 30 June 1889 (in this edition as 89-06-30b).

John Bracebridge Wilson.

Ecklonia loddersiana not in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).

Johnstone Creek, Qld. See J. Agardh to M, 4 May 1890, for identifications of this collection.

Charles Elliott.

Harvey (1848), p. 19.

Please cite as “FVM-89-09-29a,” 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/89-09-29a