Lonah. Ulverstone
Tasmania
Dec 23/89.
To Baron von Mueller
&c &c.
Dear Sir,
At last I have been able to prepare a set of duplicate Algae for you, which go by this same post. The list will shew you that they are not quite complete but as nearly so as I can at present make them — & I hope they are correctly identified — but I am unfortunately very ignorant on the subject of Algae.
If you would be kind enough to give me an introduction to Professor Agardh, with his postal address, I could send him specimens direct, & would let you have any duplicates of fresh species. Would that suit your purpose & perhaps save you trouble? Of the desired Echlonia1 I have not yet come across any more specimens. There were a great many specimens in my original parcel of which I had not duplicates, & should have liked to have them returned with their names. But if they are of use to the Professor it is better he should have the benefit of them of course.
I am enclosing a specimen of a shrub found by Dr. Smyth of Latrobe, at Green's Creek a few miles inland from Port Sorell.2 It was sent to me during the winter & is very brittle. When fresh is must be a pretty thing, & the Doctor thinks it rare if not new. I have not been able to identify it at all, but it may be well known, for all that — & your verdict will be gratefully received.
With kind regards & all best wishes, I remain
yours sincerely
Mary Lodder.
Tasmanian Algae, as named from Prof. Agardh's list.3 For Baron von Mueller.
From M. Lodder, Ulverstone, N. Tas. Dec. 1889.4
x I have no duplicate of no 1. which is Sporochnus pedunculatus.
Other omitted numbers are those of which the Baron had already given the names.
| No 2. | Polysiphonia cladostephus |
| 3. | Gelidium australe |
| 6. | Plocamium flexuosum |
| 7. | Ptilota articulata |
| 8. | Champia Tasmanica |
| 10. | Haliseris Muelleri |
| 12, | Chorda lomentaria |
| 13. | All three of mine were Callophyllus5 coccinea6 |
| 15. | |
| 16. | |
| 14. | Ptilonia subulifera |
| x18. | No duplicate, Cystophora fragments, in Callithamnion |
| 19. | Ceramium diaphanum |
| 23. | Wrangelia clavigera |
| x24. | No duplicate. Peyssonnelia australis |
| 25. | Pterocladia lucida I cannot trace this name in Hooker's Flor. Tas. or any other book of reference to hand7 |
| 26. | Ptilonia australiensis8 |
| 27. | Rhodophyllus9 membranacea |
| No 28. | Laurencia Forsteri |
| 29. | No name given |
| 30. | Caulerpa Brownii |
| 33. | Ballia callitricha |
| 34. | Laurencia elata |
| 35. | Polysiphonia caniculata10 |
| 36. 37. | Plocamium costatum 38 & 36 are given as Phacelocarpus in Prof. Agardh's list, but there has been some confusion as my specimens are Plocamium costatum apparently!11 |
| 39. | Plocamium procerum |
| 40. | Griffithsia elongata |
| 41. | Sphacelaria paniculata |
| 42. | = 23. Wrangelia clavigera |
| 43 & 44. | Plocamium angustatum |
| 45. | Corallina Cuvieri |
| 46. | Amphora12 charoides This seems to be Amphiroa in Hooker's work.13 |
Amphiroa
Amphora charoides
Ballia callitricha
Callithamnion
Callophyllus coccinea
Caulerpa Brownii
Ceramium diaphanum
Champia Tasmanica
Chorda lomentaria
Corallina Cuvieri
Cystophora
Echlonia
Gelidium australe
Griffithsia elongata
Haliseris Muelleri
Laurencia elata
Laurencia Forsteri
Peyssonnelia australis
Phacelocarpus
Plocamium angustatum
Plocamium costatum
Plocamium costatum
Plocamium flexuosum
Plocamium procerum
Polysiphonia caniculata
Polysiphonia cladostephus
Pterocladia lucida
Ptilonia australiensis
Ptilonia subulifera
Ptilota articulata
Rhodophyllus membranacea
Sphacelaria paniculata
Sporochnus pedunculatus
Wrangelia clavigera
Wrangelia clavigera
Ecklonia?
All places named are in Tas.
See also the undated list of J. Agardh's identifications of an earlier sending of Lodder's algae, sent with J. Agardh to M, 29 September 1889 (in this edition as 89-09-29a), collected at the mouth of the Leven River, N. Tasmania, at M's request. See M to J. Agardh, 30 June 1889, announcing the dispatch of two packets of algae from Lodder. M sent copies of the lists of identifications to the collectors where requested, as he evidently did in this case. Except for differences in the spelling of some names, indicated in the notes below, the list prepared by Lodder matches that in Agardh's list.
Lodder's list was arranged in two columns; '27. Rhodophyllus membranacea' is the last entry in the left column.
Agardh's list had Callophyllis.
The three numbers are bracketed, with the comment adjacent to the bracket.
Harvey (1860) wrote the section on algae in J. Hooker (1860); this species does not appear under this name or either of the synonyms listed in AlgaeBase (accessed 16 August 2023). J. Agardh (1848-1901), vol. 2, p. 483 (1851) made this combination.
Agardh's list had australasica.
Agardh's list had Rhodophyllis.
In the list cited in n. 4 above, Agardh had identified no. 35 as Polysiphonia cancellata.
No. 38 in Agardh's list was ' = 36. cui inest Phacelocarpus' [in which Phacelocarpus is present]. Apparently the copy of Agardh's list provided for Lodder had not indicated this, or Lodder had not understood the implications.
Agardh's list had Amphiroa. Lodder's comment refers to Harvey (1860), p. 309, and suggests that the error was in the list supplied to her.
Harvey (1860), p. 309.
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 1/2/90 FvM'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-89-12-23a,” 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