25/8/93.
With the aid of a mycologic Specialist,1 who has the necessary full library, dear Miss Walker, at Kew, I can give you the name of some of your fungs.
1, Golden Shiner = Agaricus Lampas, Berkeley.
2, White Shiner = Agaricus salignus Fries
4, Indeterminably imperfect
3, Pink Cup = Russula expallens.
5, Orange Coral fungus. Clavaria Botrytis Persoon
6 Golden Cup also 7 Russula alutacea Fries
8, Tufted = Strobilomyces pallescens, Cooke & Massey
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller.
Agaricus Lampas
Agaricus salignus
Clavaria Botrytis
Russula alutacea
Russula expallens
Strobilomyces pallescens
Probably George Massey, who was the Principal Assistant at Kew from 1893.
Please cite as “FVM-93-08-25,” 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