Lund, Schweden 4 Maj 1890
Hochgeehrter Herr Baron!
Vor etwa 6 Wochen sandte ich Ihnen eine neue Bearbeitung der Sargassen von Australien, welche, als ein Specialwerk für Australische Algen, ich hoffe Ihnen richtig zugekommen seyn wird. Heute sende ich Ihnen eine kleine, aber ausgesuchte Samlung von Seltenheiten (in besond. Packet); die ich in den mir letztens zugesandten Algen-Samlungen angetroffen habe. Es sind besonders Algen aus der Champion-bay von Spalding, und Dr Elliot, aus Geographe bay von Mrs Irvine gesammelt, so wie eine möglichst vollständige Samlung der mir zugesandten Neu Zealand Algen, die ich genauer zu untersuchen Gelegenheit gefunden habe. Sie werden sich vielleicht erinnern dass jene Samlung von Spalding, als zwischen papierblätter ganz zusammen geklebte Algenmassen enthaltend, beynahe als verdorbenes Material bezeichnet wurden; aber mit aufopferung der mehr gemeinen Sachen (Plocamium etc) habe ich mehrere neue Algenformen darunter gefunden, von denen ich heute Exemplare, und sogar gut praeparirte, sende. Es scheint dass die Localität (Champion bay) an neue und interessante Algen besonders reich wäre. Auch die Localität von Mrs Irvine (Theil von Geographe bay) mögte vielleicht, wenn genauer durchgesucht, noch andere Seltenheiten geben. Unter den Ihnen jetzt zugesandten Exemplaren werden Sie finden die wahrscheinlich äusserst seltene Amansia mamillaris, welche von Lamouroux schon beschrieben, so viel ich weiss nachher nie wiedergefunden wurde. Es war leider davon nur ein einziges exemplar, welches ich wenig theilen wollte. Auch die wahrscheinlich sehr seltene Lenormandia latifolia fand sich in gute Exemplare unter den Algen von Spalding. Sie wurde in Nereis australis von Harvey beschrieben, aber nachher, wie es scheint, nicht wieder gefunden, wurde sie in Phycol. australis kaum erwähnt, wenn nicht als eine breite Form von L. spectabilis; obgleich ganz gewiss eine verschiedene pflanze. Eine neue andere Lenormandia, welche wie eine Delesseria aussieht (L. hypoglossum), eine neue Vidalia (V. intermedia) eine neue Curdiea (C. Irvineae), die alte Rhodophyllis nitophylloides, aber mit Kapsel frucht, welche eine besond. Gattung bezeichnet, eine neue Polyzonia aus N. Zealand. Ich mögte gern wissen dass diese Sendung Ihnen richtig zugekommen sey. Ich erinnere mir nicht ob ich Ihnen provisional Verzeichnisse der letzten oben genannten Samlungen zugeschickt habe. Demnach folgen solche heute mit.
Von den letztens zusammen gebrachten Doubl.1 habe ich eine neue kleine distribution von Algae Muellerianae an Kew, Dublin, Bornet in Paris, und andern vertheilt.
Mit den besten Wunschen zeichnet Ihr ergebenster
J G Agardh.
Algae ex Geographe-bay, a Mrs Irvine collectae, sub prima aestate 1889 Lundam advectae
[Algae from Geographe Bay2 collected by Mrs Irvine, brought to Lund at the beginning of summer 1889].
Caulerpa |
Cactoides |
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Brownii |
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Sonderi |
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Hypnoides |
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Cystophora |
racemosa |
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Grevillei |
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monilifera |
Platythalia Quercifolia
Cladosteph.3 verticillatus australis
Zonaria Sinclairii
Ballia callitricha
Ptilota coralloidea
Gigartina disticha
Callophyllis coccinea
Plocamium |
procerum |
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Mertensii |
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nidificum |
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angustum |
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coccineum forma. |
Phacelocarpus Labillardieri
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sessilis |
Curdiea Irvinea nov. sp.4
Gracilaria furcellata?
Stenocladia Sonderiana
Nitophyllum (fragm.)
Pterocladia lucida
Gelidium patens J. Ag.5
Hypnea episcopalis
Laurencia heterocladae forma?
[form of Laurencia heteroclada?]
|
Forsteri |
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luxurians |
Rhodomelae forma?
[form of Rhodomela?]
Trigenea australis
Polyzonia incisa
Sarcomenia Delesserioides
Lenormandia hypoglossum nov. sp.6
Corallina Cuvieri
Amphiroa charoides
Mastophora Lamourouxii
Algae ex Champion bay a H A Spalding missae
[Algae sent by H. A. Spalding from Champion Bay7].
Cladophora sp.
Cystophora monilifera
Ecklonia radiata
Halyseris8 sp. (H. Muelleri?)
Myriodesma latifolium.
Sargassum fallax
— |
isophyllum |
— |
biforme |
Acropeltis phyllophora
Plocamium preissianum
|
nidificum |
Rhabdonia globifera
Hymenocladia lanceolata
Thysanocladia oppositifolia
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linearis |
Rhodophyllis blepharicarpa
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membranacea |
Kützingia canaliculata
— |
angusta |
Polyzonia incisa
Polysiphonia cancellata
Lenormandia latifolia nov. sp.9
Vidalia intermedia nov. sp.10
Algae ex Champion bay a Dr Elliott missae
[Algae sent from Champion Bay by Dr Elliott].
Lobospira bicuspidata
Ptilota coralloidea
Erythroclonium Sonderi
|
pyriferum |
Rhodophyllis sp.
Hymenocladia ramalina?
Plocamium preissianum
— |
nidificum |
Thysanocladia oppositifolia
Phacelocarpus sessilis
Stenocladia Sonderiana
Calliblepharis pannosa
Gelinaria sp?
Pterocladia lucida
Kutzingia angusta
Amansia mamillaris
Vidalia intermedia
Mastophora
Dilophus sp. nov.?
Algae ex Ulverston Tasmaniae a Dr W. Spencer 1889 missae
[Algae sent from Ulverston,11 Tasmania, by Dr W. Spencer in 1889].
Fucus chondrophyllus
Cystophora retorta
Macrocystis fragm.
Sargassum varians
Zonaria Turneriana
Plocamium angustum
— |
costatum |
Thamnoclonium claviferum J.Ag.
Gelidium glandulaefolium
Ptilonia australasica
Laurencia Forsteri
Amphiroa (fragm. disrupt.)
Corallina Cuvieri
Algae ex Streaky bay a Dowling 1889 missae.
[Algae sent from Streaky Bay12 by Dowling 1889]
Sargassum varians
— |
biforme |
Cystophora Brownii
|
retorta |
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monilifera |
Scaberia Agardhi13
Zonaria Turneriana
Caulerpa Brownii
Conf.14 sp.
Dasyphila Preissii
Halophlegma15 Preissii
Plocamium coccineum
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var. flexuosum |
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nidificum |
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Preissianum |
Hymenocladia divaricata
Phacelocarpus sessilis
Callophyllis Lambertii
Laurencia Forsteri
Sarcomenia delesserioides
Alsidium comosum Harv.
Polysiphonia cancellata
Thuretia Quercifolia
Dasya fragm.
Pollexfenia fragm.
Algae ex Nova Zelandia (Cap Saunders) missae
[Algae sent from New Zealand (Cape Saunders)].
Marginaria Boryana
— |
urvilliana |
Fucus chondrophyllus
Cystophora scalaris J Ag
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distenta J Ag |
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torulosa |
Enteromorpha acanthophora
— |
linza |
Ulva rigida
Porphyra nobilis
Codium tomentos.16 auct.
Caulerpa fragm.
Ballia callitricha
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scoparia |
Ceramium rubrum
Ptilota formosissima
Calophylus17 Calliblepharoides
Gymnogongrus nodiferus
Hymenocladia lanceolata
Epymenia sp.
Plocamium costatum
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flexuosum |
Gracilaria sp.
Calliblepharis Preissiana
Nitophyllum dilabidum J.Ag
Lenormandia angustifolia
— |
Chauvinia |
Polyzonia sp. nov.
Polysiphonia sp.
Gigartina clavifera
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angulata |
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fissa Suhr? |
Algae from the aestuary of Johnston River a S Johnson 1889. missae, vix determinandae.
[Algae from the estuary of the Johnston River, sent by S. Johnson18 1889, scarcely determinable.]
Cladophora sp. Cl. fastigiata (?)
(Cl. catenatae prox.)
[close to Cl. catenata]
Sargassum opacum? fragm.
Chondariacea?19
Centroceras clavulatum
Laurencia sp. (nana)
[(dwarf])
Hypnea sp. (nana)
[dwarf])
Gigartina sp. (nana)
[dwarf])
Lund, Sweden, 4 May 1890
Highly esteemed Baron!
About six weeks ago I sent you a new revision of the Sargassum of Australia,20 which, as a special work for Australian algae, I hope will have reached you safely.21Today I am sending you a small, but select collection of rarities (in special parcel); that I have found in the algal collections sent to me recently. There are particularly algae collected from Champion Bay by Spalding and Dr Elliot, from Geographe Bay by Mrs Irvine, as well as a collection as complete as possible of New Zealand algae sent to me that I have found opportunity to examine more closely. You will perhaps remember that the collection from Spalding was described as containing masses of algae completely stuck together between sheets of paper, and as nearly spoiled material;22 but by sacrificing the more common things (Plocamium etc) I have found several new forms of algae among them, of which I am sending specimens today, and even well prepared. It seems that the locality (Champion Bay) would be particularly rich in new and interesting Algae. Also the locality of Mrs Irvine (part of Geographe Bay) might perhaps, if more closely searched, give still other rarities. Among those now sent to you, you will find the probably extremely rare Amansia mamillaris, which was described already by Lamouroux, and as far as I know never found again afterwards. Unfortunately there was only a single specimen that I intended to divide a little. Also the probably very rare Lenormandia latifolia was found in good specimens among the algae of Spalding. It was described by Harvey in Nereis australis,23 but afterwards, as it seems not found again, it was hardly mentioned in Phycol. australis,24 if not as a broad form of L. spectabilis; although quite certainly a different plant. Another new Lenormandia that looks like a Delesseria (L. hypoglossum), a new Vidalia (V. intermedia), a new Curdiea (C. Irvineae), the old Rhodophyllis nitophylloides, but with capsule fruit that indicates a special genus, a new Polyzonia from New Zealand. I would like to know that this consignment has come to you safely.25 I do not remember if I have sent you the provisional lists of the last collections mentioned above.26 Therefore they follow today as well.
Of the duplicates recently brought together, I have [made] a small distribution of Algae Muellerianae to Kew, Dublin, Bornet in Paris and distributed others.
With best wishes signs you most devoted
J. G. Agardh.
[list follows as above]
Acropeltis phyllophora
Alsidium comosum
Amansia mamillaris
Amphiroa charoides
Ballia callitricha
Ballia scoparia
Calliblepharis pannosa
Calliblepharis Preissiana
Callophyllis coccinea
Callophyllis Lambertii
Calophyllis Calliblepharoides
Caulerpa Brownii
Caulerpa Cactoides
Caulerpa Hypnoides
Caulerpa Sonderi
Centroceras clavulatum
Ceramium rubrum
Chondariacea
Cladophora catenata
Cladophora fastigiata
Cladostephus verticillatus australis
Codium tomentosum
Conferva
Corallina Cuvieri
Curdiea irvineae
Cystophora Brownii
Cystophora distenta
Cystophora monilifera
Cystophora racemosa
Cystophora retorta
Cystophora scalaris
Cystophora torulosa
Cystophora Grevillei
Cystophora monilifera
Dasya
Dasyphila Preissii
Delesseria
Dilophus
Ecklonia radiata
Enteromorpha acanthophora
Enteromorpha linza
Epymenia
Erythroclonium pyriferum
Erythroclonium Sonderi
Fucus chondrophyllus
Gelidium glandulaefolium
Gelidium patens
Gelinaria
Gigartina angulata
Gigartina clavifera
Gigartina disticha
Gigartina fissa
Gracilaria furcellata
Gymnogongrus nodiferus
Halophlegma Preissii
Halyseris Muelleri
Hymenocladia divaricata
Hymenocladia lanceolata
Hymenocladia linearis
Hymenocladia ramalina
Hypnea episcopalis
Kutzingia angusta
Kützingia angusta
Kützingia canaliculata
Laurencia Forsteri
Laurencia heteroclada
Laurencia luxurians
Lenormandia angustifolia
Lenormandia Chauvinia
Lenormandia hypoglossum
Lenormandia latifolia
Lenormandia spectabilis
Lobospira bicuspidata
Macrocystis
Marginaria Boryana
Marginaria urvilliana
Mastophora Lamourouxii
Myriodesma latifolium
Nitophyllum dilabidum
Phacelocarpus Labillardieri
Phacelocarpus sessilis
Platythalia Quercifolia
Plocamium angustum
Plocamium coccineum
Plocamium coccineum var. flexuosum
Plocamium costatum
Plocamium flexuosum
Plocamium nidificum
Plocamium preissianum
Plocamium procerum
Plocamium Mertensii
Pollexfenia
Polysiphonia cancellata
Polyzonia incisa
Porphyra nobilis
Pterocladia lucida
Ptilonia australasica
Ptilota coralloidea
Ptilota formosissima
Rhabdonia globifera
Rhodomelae
Rhodophyllis blepharicarpa
Rhodophyllis membranacea
Rhodophyllis nitophylloides
Sarcomenia delesserioides
Sargassum biforme
Sargassum fallax
Sargassum isophyllum
Sargassum opacum
Sargassum varians
Scaberia Agardhi
Stenocladia Sonderiana
Thamnoclonium claviferum
Thuretia Quercifolia
Thysanocladia oppositifolia
Trigenea australis
Ulva rigida
Vidalia intermedia
Zonaria Sinclairii
Zonaria Turneriana
Please cite as “FVM-90-05-04,” 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 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/90-05-04