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Physical location:

MSS M108b, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 82.09.00a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Károly Kalchbrenner to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-09 [82.09.00a]. 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/82-09-00a>, accessed September 11, 2025

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Latest possible date this letter could have been sent established from MS annotation by M: 'Erhalthen u beantwortet Oct. 1882' [Received and answered October 1882]. See also K. Kalchbrenner to M, 22 July 1882.
Hochgeehrter Freund!
Da ich längere Zeit vom Hause abwesend war, habe ich erst jetzt mein Dankschreiben an die Linneisch Gesellschaft in Sydney abgesandt, nebst ein paar kleineren Abhandlungen. Meine "Icones selectae" werden etwas später folgen, weil jetzt, wegen der ägyptischen Wirren der Weg über Suez nicht ganz sicher erscheint.
Ihre letzter Pilzsendung ist vor wenig Tagen angelangt und enthält wenig Braüchbares. Von der Vorletzten habe ich folgendes determinirt.
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The list of determinations follows on from this text.
Highly esteemed Friend!
Since I was absent from home for a long time, I have only now sent off my letter of thanks to the Linnean Society in Sydney, together with a couple of smaller papers.
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Kalchbrenner was elected a Corresponding Member of the Linnean Society of New South Wales on 29 March 1882. The papers he sent them as thanks are presumably the two papers by him read at the Society's meetings on 29 November and 27 December 1882, that is Kalchbrenner (1882a) and Kalchbrenner (1882b).
My Icones selectae will follow somewhat later, because now the route via Suez seems not quite safe owing to the Egyptian turmoil.
Your last fungal consignment arrived a few days ago and contains little that is useful. Of the last but one I have determined the following:
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Ag. Lepiot. megalotheles
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Agaricus Lepiota megalotheles. All 'Ag.' In this list = Agaricus.
K. n. sp. Endeavour Riv= Persick.
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Persieh?
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Ag. Lepiot bubalinus
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Agaricus Lepiota bubalina?
Berkl. Endeav. Riv.
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Ag. Trichol. panaeolus
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Agaricus Tricholoma panaeolum?
Fr. (proxime) Endeavour Riv.
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Ag. Collybia, nitellinus
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Name not found in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021) but illustrated as 'Agaricus (Collybia) nitellinus Fries I" in Cooke (1881-91), vol. 2, plate 146.
Fr Illavarra
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Illawarra (NSW).
l. Kirton
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Ag. (Hebeloma) Kirtoni K. n sp. (vel si melius placet: Ag. careo-lateritius) — Illawarra
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Ag (Flammula) peregrinus Fr Brigthon
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Brighton.
near Melbourne leg. Luehmann 1882.
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Ag. Psathyrella, gracilis
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Name not found in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021), which does not record infrageneric names, but illustrated in Cooke (1881-91), vol. 5, plate 634, as 'Agaricus (Psathyrella) gracilis', where it is attributed to Berkeley, not Fries.
Fr — Illawarra
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Russula fragilis

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Fr. — Endeavour Riv.
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Ag (Hypholoma) peltastes K. n. sp. Illawarra, Kirton.
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Lentinus princeps

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Fr. — Illawarra
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Cyphella capula

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Fr. — Illawara
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Polyp.
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Polyporus.
(Pleuropus) lucidus var exquisitus
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Name not found in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021), which does not record infrageneric names,) but listed in Grevillea, vol. 13, (1884-5), p. 32 as 'Polyporus (Pleuropus) lucidus' in a list of fungi from Demerara, transferred from an Edinburgh Forestry Exhibition to Kew.
K.
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Polypor.
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Polyporus.
(Mesopus) perdurans
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Not found with 'Mesopus' in FNI (accessed 4 May 2021), which does not record infrageneric names, nor elsewhere.
K. n s Tasmania
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Geaster fimbriatus

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Name not found in FNI but Index fungorum lists it as an orthographic variant of Geastrum fimbriatum (both accessed 4 May 2021).
Illawarra
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Cyathus intermedius

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Berkl. Illawarra
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Lycoperdon glabrescens

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Berkl. Brighton leg. J. Luehmann.
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Scleroderma pileolatum

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K. — Illawarra