The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Lund Sweden ¶ 30 April 1885. ¶ Highly esteemed Baron, ¶ ¶ It has now been a long time since you have heard from me, but I have still been occupied with algae, and Australian algae in particular. I ha...

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Preferred Citation:

Jacob Agardh to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1885-04-30. 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/85-04-30>, accessed September 11, 2025

MS is a draft, and although the copy sent has not been found, M to J. Agardh, 15 June 1885 (in this edition as 85-06-15a) is a reply. The list appended below is held at RB MSS M108a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, and may not be the one to which Agardh refers in his letter. However, the reference to the Norfolk Island specimens makes it likely that it is.

Lund Schweden

30/4 85.

Hochgeehrter Herr Baron!

Es ist jetzt geraume Zeit lange her dass Sie von mir hörten; doch bin ich noch immer mit Algen, und zwar besonders mit australischen Algen thätig gewesen. Einigen Gattungen (Sargassen) habe ich mit vorliebe besondere Studien gewidmet; bedaure aber sehr dass eben von diesen, — welche als jung und alt, oben und unten oft ganz verschieden scheinen — beynahe immer nur Bruchstücke in den Samlungen

Sammlungen.

vorkommen. Über die Florideen habe ich neulich an unsere Acta univers. Lundensis eine Abhandlung überliefert welche theils einige Beobachtungen über Systematik und Genera theils Beschreibungen der neuen Arten besonders von Australien die mir in der letzten Zeit vorgekommen sind, enthalten wird.

Während der langen Zeit sind mir verschiedene kleinere Sendungen zugekommen, über welche Ich Ihnen heute Auskunft geben wünschte. In mehreren von diesen Samlungen

Sammlungen.

habe ich nur ganz gewöhnliche Species gefunden und weil die pakete oft von allen Seiten durch gestochen (bei Quarantain Behandlung) waren, kommen die Algen öfters nur in fragmente gebrochen vor. Ich habe demnach geglaubt dass solche Algen Ihnen von keinem Werth seyn mögten. Dagegen vermuthe ich dass es Ihnen wünschenswerth wäre zu wissen welche Algen in die verschiedene localitäten gefunden wären, und habe ich deshalb eine möglichst vollständige Verzeichnis der in diese Sammlungen enthaltene Species ausgeschrieben, welche Sie hier eingeschlossen finden werden.

Unter den Algen von Israeliten Bay waren dagegen mehrere von Interesse und sogar einige, die mir und wie ich glaube auch der Wissenschaft neu sind; leider aber in einzelne exemplare nur gefunden. Die eine ist eine neue Rhodophyllis die ich Rh. Brookeana genant

genannt?

habe, durch besondere Structur sehr ausgezeichnet; die andere eine neue Cliftonea Cl. imbricata! — Von den beyden sende ich Ihnen so gute Bruchstücke als der gegenwärtige Vorrath erlaubt. — Es ist sonderbar dass diese wunderbar gebauten Cliftonea -formen so selten vorkommen! Wenn Sie von den anderen in der Verzeichnis genannten Arten Exemplare wünschen solten so bitte ich mir möglichst bald darüber auskunft zu erhalten.

Die Algen von Norfolk Island sind noch nicht von mir genauer untersucht. Ich habe doch gesehen dass die nur von dieser Localität [gekannte] Plocamium hamatum, in der Samlung

Sammlung .

vorhanden sei und auch davon sende ich Ihnen heute ein[es]. die übrigen scheinen mehr gewöhnliche Formen anzuhören.

anzugehören?

Lund Sweden

30 April 1885.

Highly esteemed Baron,

It has now been a long time since you have heard from me, but I have still been occupied with algae, and Australian algae in particular. I have subjected some genera (Sargassum) for which I have a special liking to detailed studies, but regret very much that of these, — which often appear quite different as juvenile or old specimens, and from top or bottom

The basal parts of Sargassum are usually very different from the upper parts of the frond.

— nearly always only fragments are contained in the collections. I have recently sent a paper on the Florideae to our Acta Univ. lundensis

J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, published 1885; see the bibliographical comment in n. 2, T. Ware to M, 12 June 1874 (in this edition as 74-06-12a).

that contains partly some observations on systematics and genera, and partly descriptions of new species, particularly from Australia, that I received in recent times.

During this long period several smaller consignments have arrived, and today I want to provide you with information on these. In several of these collections I found only quite common species, and because the parcels were often pierced on all sides (during the quarantine treatment), the algae are frequently found broken into fragments. Consequently I thought that such algae would be of no value to you. However, I assume it would be desirable for you to know which algae were found in the various localities, and for this reason I have compiled as complete a list as possible, which you will find enclosed herewith, of the species contained in these collections.

Among the algae from Israelite Bay,

WA.

however, were several of interest, and even some that are new to me and, I believe, also new to science, but unfortunately only found in single specimens. One of them is a new Rhodophyllis, which I have named R. brookeana, strongly characterized by its particular structure.

J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, p. 54. See also M to J. Agardh, 15 June 1885 (in this edition as 85-06-15a).

The other is a new Cliftonea,

i.e. Cliftonaea.

C. imbricata!

J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, pp. 115-7.

— Of these two species I am sending you fragments as good as the existing supply permits. It is strange, that these wonderfully structured Cliftonea species are so rarely found! If you wish to have specimens of the other named species in the list, I ask that you let me know as soon as possible.

I have not yet made a thorough examination of the algae from Norfolk Island. However, I did notice that the Plocamium hamatum, known only from this locality, is represented in the collection, and I am enclosing today some of this for you also. The others seem to belong to more common species.

Algae a Bar. F. de Mueller missae 1884-5 .

[Algae sent by Baron F. von Mueller 1884-5]

1. Loco natali non expresso (forsan e Cap. Hawke)

[Place of origin not stated (perhaps from Cape Hawke)]

Cape Hawke, NSW, NE of Buledalah. MS annotation by M: 'Fawcett' [i.e., Charles Fawcett].

Harv.

2. Cap. Hawke

Curdiaea

Curdiae?

laciniata.

Fragmenta	Spongiae.
"	Amphiroae.

3. Eucla, N. Sth. Wales, Oliver .

John Oliver. Eucla is on the south coast of WA, not in NSW.

— — — — retroflexa

folia Sargassi — — — ?

fragmenta e

Hanowia in Algaebase, but spelled in J. Agardh (1848-1901), vol. 2, p. 5 and index, although given as Hanowia where the genus is described, p. 109.

— — — Dasyae.

4. Port Jackson,

NSW.

Ramsay

Edward Ramsay.

Aresch.

5. Queenscliff

Vic.

Corallina Cuvieri

6. Deal Island near Tasmania,

Island in Bass Strait.

Judge Dobson

William Lambert Dobson (1833-1898).

Zoophyta (plurima)

Plocamium (fragment)

Peyssonellia

Peyssonelia?

australis

7. Lutitt bay

Loutitt Bay, Lorne, Vic. This collection was sent by M with his letter to J. Agardh, 30 December 1883 (in this edition as 83-12-30a).

Mrs Beal

Kallymenia sp. K. Tasmanicae fragm.?

Martensia Gigas

8 near St. Vincents gulf.

SA.

Tepper .

}

fragmenta non determ.

[undetermined fragments]

9. Cape York, Daemel

C. australasicus?

Sond"

10 Israeliten Bay, S.W. Austr: Miss S. T. Brooke

Sarah Brooks.

Codium muelleri Kutz

" bursa Auct?

[the author]

(non determin)

[not determined]

Zonaria Turneriana

var.

" monilifera

" Brownei

C. Brownii?

" platylobium

" retroflexa

" subfarcinata

Sargassum	Sonderi	}	fragment.
"	biformis 28 S. biforme?
"	tristichum

S. agardhii?

Ceramium

Spyridia opposita

Plocamium preissianum

fragment.

C. cuvieri?

Phacelocarpus Sessilis

Chrysymenia obovata

Name not found (AlgaeBase, accessed 24 March 2022).

Stenocladia Sonderiana

Thysanocladia Harveyana

Ramalina

Rhabdonia globifera

J.Ag.

Dictymenia

Dictyomenia?

tridens

" Harveyana

Vidalia spiralis

Tricladia australis

Polyphacum proliferum

Lenormandia spectabilis

" Muelleri

(prox.)

[near]

Rhodophyllis Brookeana

11. Cape Portland, Tasmania Miss Baudinet

Zonaria Turneriana

— — — — angustum

Harv.

— — — — carnea var. J. Ag.

— — — — Lambertii

e fragm.

12. Cap Hawke, coast near Bulladelah

Bulahdelah, NSW.

— C. H. Fawcett .

Fragmenta diversa, non determ.

Amphiroae, e,

Zonariae nigresc.

nigrescens?

; Cystophylli

muricati, Sargassii —

13 Norfolk Island Isaac Robinson

(not yet exactly examined).

14. East of King Georges Sound

WA.

1884.

Cystophora	Brownii (?)
"	monilifera

Sargassum (fragn.)

Laurencia	elata
"	luxurians
"	Forsteri

— — nidificum

— — procerum.

List of Algae from Cape Hawke New South Wales, Ch. Fawcett .

J Ag.

Sargassum sp, near to S. vestitum

fragm. of other	Sargassa
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	Amphiroa sp.

List of Algae from Mouth of Bloomfield River,

Qld; Ellie Bauer.

Miss Bauer .

Galaxaura sp. (perhaps G. JanioidesLamx) near to G. cylindrica)

Corallopsis Durvillei

Corallopsis urvillei? Hydropuntia urvillei?

( Mont.)

Halimedamacroloba Harv.

incrassata Harv.

Harv.

Sond.

Sargassum	baccularia
	lophocarpum J Ag.
	decurrens

many fragments of different species

MS annotation by M above this line: 'Specimens named'.

List of Algae from Hobson bay

Vic.

— H. Watts .

2. Cladophora near to Clad. Bainesii Harv.

3. Dictyota sp. (sterilis vix determ. = D. dichotoma auct.

4. Mont.

5. Sond.

6. J Ag.

7. Cladophora sp. (Cl. gracilis H.)

8. Harv.

9. Sond.

10 ?

11. Auct. without sphaerosporae not to be determined.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16-7. J Ag.

18. folia inferiora Sargassi biformis.

Lund, 1885

J G Agardh