Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 82.09.22c

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1882-09-22 [82.09.22c]. 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/82-09-22c>, accessed September 11, 2025

22/9/82
I owe you still my thanks, dear Mr Ramsay, for sending me two pieces of wood with bark of
Myoporum platycarpum

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See M to E. Ramsay, 30 August 1882.
Is the loose piece (very flat) of wood from the same tree?
The "Dogwood" from the "Desert" is my
Eremophila longifolia

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2
Described by M in B59.10.02, p. 17.
Though I had named your Pterocladia and some other of your & Mr Haswells Algae, from Port Jackson, where seaweeds are so rare, I deemed it best to submit them to the great specialist, Prof Agardh of Lund, whose illustrious parent, Bishop Agardh was the main founder of Algology in the beginning of this century.
Dr Agardh gives me by last post
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Letter not found.
the following names.
Pterocladia lucida

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, J. Agardh
Splachnidium rugosum

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, Greville.
Lederstedtia (n.g.) australis J. Agardh.
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Letterstedtia? See Agardh (1873-90), part 3, pp. 175-7 (1883). The name is spelled as in M's letter in 'Notes and exhibits', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1883, vol. 7, p. 402, presented at the meeting held on 27 September 1882, where Ramsay reported that 'in a recent letter' M had 'kindly given me the names of the following algae… from Bondi'.
Gelidium corneum

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, Greville
Plocamium angustum

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J. Agardh
The specimens of
Laurencia

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and
Martensia

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were too imperfect for specific naming. I named formerly
Ctenodus Billardieri

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. Perhaps you might mention by the way of encouragement in collecting seaweeds, at the L. S.
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Linnean Society.
of N.S.W. that the algic flora of Port Jackson & other coast of N.S.W. deserve further attention, and that special search should be made for fruit specimens of
Claudea Bennettiana

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near the east end of Spectacle Island.
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At the meeting of the Linnean Society of NSW held on 27 September 1882, Ramsay urged the search for fruiting specimens of Claudea bennettiana.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.