381. This I should have taken for a form of Sisymbrium cardaminoides, if the petals were not yellow. I will give the name, when I get time again for examining critically bot. specimens. Are the petals always yellow, never white? It is always onerous and perplexing here to work on immigrated plants, as we do not know from what part of our globe they may have come.1
383. Chenopodium murale, Linné2
D from East = A3
352. Myriophyllum4
Foliage only, so far as I can see. Either M. elatinoides or M. vaxiifolium5 or M. Muelleri. Probably from brackish but no marine water.
388. Haloragis6
The plant is in a deformed state, and thus the fruits, so characteristic for species in this genus are not properly developed.
Not indigenous. Probably immigrated from Africa. In your list, when to be published, keep all non-australian plants in an appendix together, so as not to deface the clear picture, which your publication will then give of your native Florule.8
384. Introduced.
Fruit not ripe.
390. Polypogon Monspeliensis, Desfontaines9
391. Salsola Kali, Linné
392. Oenothera, Garden-Fugitive
? petals yellow
393. Suaeda maritima, du Mortier
The present Algs will go by this weeks mail to Agardh.10 The Caulerpa simpliciuscula is rather rare.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Hope, your worthy mother feels better.
Atriplex Muelleri
Bassia euchylaenoides
Caulerpa simpliciuscula
Chenopodium murale
Haloragis
Hypericum Japonicum
Lagenophora Billardieri
Myriophyllum elatinoides
Myriophyllum Muelleri
Myriophyllum vaxiifolium
Oenothera
Pennisetum
Polypogon Monspeliensis
Salsola Kali
Sisymbrium cardaminoides
Suaeda maritima
This sentence is oddly placed as Sisymbrium cardaminoides is indigenous.
This number is used twice in the Hussey collection at MEL, one for Chenopodium murale collected in 1895, the other for the alga Epiglossum proliferum, collected in June 1896.
The specimen label gives no clue as to what this might mean. It is unlikely that it is a comment by Hussey, as the transcriber did not add a note to that effect as done below.
This number is used twice in the Hussey collection at MEL, on both occasions for specimens collected 1895. One specimen is of the alga Enteromorpha and the other of Billardiera versicolor, unrelated to Myriophyllum.
M. variifolium? Error in typescript?
Record number 388 not used for a Hussey specimen in MEL. Above this entry, Hussey is recorded as having written '(387. Atriplex Muelleri)'. Number 387 has not been found on any surviving determination sheet, but the name given for the specimen with this number at MEL is Atriplex suberecta, of which A. Muelleri is a synonym (APC, accessed 29 October 2024, citing J. Willis who quotes an erroneous usage of Ewart (1930), p. 444.
Kraehenbuehl (1981), p. 385, transcribes this as 'Pennistetum (sic = Pennisetum)'.
The text of this paragraph published in Kraehenbuehl (1981a), p. 393, although differing in detail from the typescript source used here.
Above this entry, Hussey is recorded as having written '389. (Bassia euchylaenoides)' (possibly an error in typescript for B. enchylaenoides). Number 389 used twice in Hussey collection at MEL, the second use is for an undated specimen of the alga Nitospinosa pristoidea.
M to J. Agardh, 18 May 1895, reported sending algae, including some from Hussey.
Item is a typescript, transcriber unknown, prepared ca. 1977 from an original MS in the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.
The main sequence beginning with record no. 381 follows on from M to J. Hussey, April 1895 (in this edition as 95-04-00f). Except for no. 352, M's names match or are synonyms, at least to genus, of those used in MEL for these specimens, collected in 1895. The item is dated to mid-May 1895 as the time that it could have been written to be consistent with the date that Sonder was informed that a parcel including algae collected by Hussey was despatched; see note below.
Please cite as “FVM-95-05-00f,” 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