C. of E. Grammar School, Geelong1
May 22nd 1891
Sir Ferdinand v. Mueller KCMG
&c &c
My dear Sir
I this day forward by parcels delivery my annual consignment of Victorian Marine Algae and a small parcel for the great and venerable Professor at Lund2 — You will note among the specimens Notheia anomala Harv. growing as a parasite upon Incodium chondrophyllum3 — I do not know that it has ever before been found on any plant except Hormosira Banksii and the remarks made on the subject by Harvey in his Phycologica Australica vol IV. plate ccxiii make this discovery peculiarly interesting.4
Believe me to remain
Yours very sincerely
J Bracebridge Wilson
Hormosira Banksii
Incodium chondrophyllum
Notheia anomala
MS also bears the crest of the school.
J. Agardh.
Fucodium chondrophyllum?
Harvey wrote: 'This little plant abounds wherever Hormosira Banksii grows commonly, and is always strictly parasitical upon that species, being the only known Fucoid which is truly a parasite' (Harvey (1858-63), vol. 4, comments on Plate CCXIII, Notheia anomala).
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 24/5/91'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-91-05-22,” 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