The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 30/12/70 ¶ ¶ I was most agreeably surprised, rev. and dear Sir, to receive your very kind note by this months mail together with your noble picture, which I shall keep among ...

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Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9. 70.12.30

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Cynara scolymus
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Erysiphe
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Oidium
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Xenodochus cerealium
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Xenodochus ligniperda
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Miles Berkeley, 1870-12-30. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/70-12-30>, accessed September 11, 2025

Melbourne

bot Garden

30/12/70

I was most agreeably surprised, rev. and dear Sir, to receive your very kind note by this months mail together with your noble picture, which I shall keep among my best treasures.

Neither letter nor photograph found.

I beg to enclose a small poor likeness of mine made 5 years ago, since which time I have not been in an attelier.

That you will give up some of your precious time in 1871 for the definition of the species of fungi of my Australian collection is most pleasing to me. To have the unparalleled experience of the greatest mycologist of this age brought to bear on these collections is a boon, which I cannot sufficiently acknowledge. If a moderate monetary contribution of mine for illustrations or otherwise in any way could facilitate your investigations, I hope you will unhesitatingly express to me your wishes in this direction, and a remittance from my private means shall be made to you at once.

Among the fungi you will find fragments of what I thought to be a thing of fungus growth, but which I found subsequently to be nothing else than to be a piece of the receptacle of Cynara scolymus. In reference to Xenodochus I append a memorandum.

The memorandum is transcribed below as a postscript. It is a separate sheet, pasted on to the folio after that bearing the valediction. It is clearly a response to a parenthetical comment published with M to the Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, August 1870 (in this edition as 70-08-00a); see n. 5 to that letter.

With profound regards

your very obedient

Ferd. von Mueller

Xenodochus ligniperda , Willk. described in Willkomm's mikroskopische Feinde des Waldes; Erstes Heft 66-67, tab 1. & partly 2.

Willkomm (1866-7).

This important work appeared 1866-1867 in Dresden (G. Schoenfield). I have it since 3 years here in Melbourne. At this moment I have no preparation of the allied

There is no entry for in the online Index Fungorum [accessed 9 November 2015], but see M to the Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, December 1869 (in this edition as 69-12-00e).

at hand.

Both have considerable affinity to the stage of and to Pen[i]cillium.

was generally determined by Rabenhorst and contributes at least one of the agencies which produce the Redrot in Pinewood.