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RB MSS M108a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 89.09.29a

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Jacob Agardh to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1889-09-29 [89.09.29a]. 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/89-09-29a>, accessed September 11, 2025

Lund, Schweden, 29 Sept. 1889.
Hochgeehrter Herr Baron!
Seitdem ich jetzt mit der Bestimmung der diesjährigen mir zugesandten Samlungen
1
Sammlungen; spelled incorrectly throughout the letter.
so ziemlich fertig bin, erlaube ich mir Ihnen darüber Auskunft zu geben in beiliegende speciche
2
specifische [spezifische]?
Verzeichnisse.
Unter diejenigen Samlungen, die in der Nähe von alten, mehr durchgesuchte, Localitäten herstammen, ist wohl kaum etwas neues zu erwarten. Demnach wurde ich aus Tasmanien, wo R. Gunn so ausgezeichnete Samlungen zusammen brachte, kaum was neues erwarten. Doch habe ich unter den Algen von Miss Lodder eine neue Ptilonia ( Pt. subulifera ) gefunden, von der ein fragment von Wilson gesammelt, in eine nach Sonder übersandte Samlung sich doch schon vorfindet. Von Ptil. australasica ist sie leicht zu unterscheiden; hat aber in Habitus und Structur mit grosse Ähnlichkeit — aber die cystocarpia ganz verschiedene. Unter den Algen von Miss Lodder ist auch wie es mir scheint eine neue art von Ecklonia, von der ich eine kleines fragment übersende. Es wäre mir sehr lieb ein vollständiges Exemplar davon beschreiben zu können als Ecklonia Loddersiana.
In der ziemlich bedeutende Samlung von Port Fairy ist kaum was neues. Auch die kleine Samlung von Streaky Bay scheint kaum was seltenes zu enthalten. Die Samlung von Johnston River enthält nur einige wenige Arten, die ich noch nicht genau untersuchte. Dagegen waren in den Samlungen von Geographe bay und besonders die von Champion bay mehrere Algen von besond. Interesse.
Unter den Algen aus Geographe bay fand ich eine Rese von einer neuen Art von Curdiea, die in habitus der Curd. coriacea aus N. Zeeland sehr nahe kommt, aber hat cystocarpia pedunculata. Auch eine neue Lenormandia (L. hypoglossum) ganz wie eine aussehend, war darunter.
Aus der Champion bay enthielt die von Dr Elliott gesandte Samlung eine neue Art von Dilophus, durch spiralförmig gewundene frons leicht zu unterscheiden; eine neue Art von Vidalia (V. intermedia); und sonst die von Lamouroux gesehene, kaum beschriebene, , von der, so viel ich weiss, nur das einzige Exemplar von Lamouroux bis jetzt gefunden wurde; von der die genauere Localität bis jetzt nicht bekannt war.
Von der durch Spalding gemachte Samlung, welche als von vermoderten und mit dem papier auf beyde Seiten zusammen geklebten Algen fast als unbrauchbar bezeichnet wurde, ist es mir doch geglückt mehrere Seltenheiten zu ausprepariren. Es sind darunter einige specimina von Harv. her. welche er nachher als variet. zu L. spectabilis brachte, aber eine ganz verschiedene Art zu seyn scheint; und die schon früher hier oben bezeichnete L. hypoglossum.
Ich habe wohl bemerkt dass Miss Lodder neben die numerirte Specimina, auch andere nicht mit Nos bezeichnete übergesandt habe, und dass sie wunscht von diesen letzteren ein Stuck mit Nahmen zurückgesandt zu erhalten. Aber eben unter diesen sind mehrere grössere algen (Cystophora-arten) welche sie nach fragmente kaum unterscheiden wurde. Ich habe es gewiss leichter solche Algen nach fragmente zu benennen. Ich glaube demnach die alte Methode, numerirte exemplare hieher zu senden, vorzuziehen sei.
Mit bestem Grusse
Ihr
J G Agardh
Algae from Aestuary of the Leven North Tasmania a Miss Lodder lectae .
[collected by Miss Lodder]
3
Translations within the list are placed in [ ] below the line in which the original appears. See also M. Lodder to M, 23 December 1889 (in this edition as 89-12-23a).
1.
2.
3.
4-5
vacant
6.
7.
8.
9.
vacat.
[vacant.]
10.
4
In AlgaeBase (accessed 12 September 2020) as Haliseris muelleri, quoting Sonder (1852), p. 665, where the genus is, as here, spelled Halyseris.
11.
vacat.
12.
Chorda lomentar. forma auct.
5
No form of Chorda lomentaria described by J. Agardh is listed in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).
13.
14.
J. Ag.
15-16.
17.
vacat.
18.
Cystophorae fragmenta in quibus sp. Callithamnii.
[in which there are species]
19.
Ceramium diaph. auct.?
6
? There is also a Ceramium diaphanoides but this was described by Kützing, not by Agardh as indicated by ‘auct.’.
20-22.
vacant
23.
24.
Peyssonellia
7
Peyssonelia ?
australis
25.
26.
27.
Rhodophyllis sp. Rhod. membranacea forma?
28.
29.
30
31-32
vacant
33.
34.
35.
36.-37.
38.
= 36. cui inest
8
in which Phacelocarpus is present.
Phacelocarpus
39.
40
41.
42.
43-44.
45.
9
Corallina cuvieri?
46
47-48
vacant
etc.
not numbered :
Zoophyta varia
sp.
(
Caulerpae fragmenta
Ecklonia?
sp. nov.
radiata.
spartioides
retorta
siliquosa
10
See n. 4, above.
Polysiphonia
Hystrix
cancellata
Dictymenia
11
Dictyomena ?
Harveyana
Gigartina
flabellata
pinnata
and several others, in fragmente.
J G Agardh
Algae ex Port Fairy a Rev. W. Whan lectae sub 16/5. 1889 a Bar. Ferd. Mueller mihi missae
[Algae from Port Fairy collected by Rev. W. Whan on 16 May 1889 and sent by Baron Ferd. Mueller to me].
12
Letter not found, nor any reference to the sending of specimens on this date.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
}
13
The specimens sent under this number constituted a mixed collection of two vegetatively somewhat similar-looking species, see images of specimens at the Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University https://storage.idigbio. and https://storage.idigbio. .
8.
9.
10.
11.
Nizzymenia
14
Nizymenia?
australis
12-15.
16.
concinna
17.
do —
do —
18
15
This variety not found in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).
19.
20
21.
22.
? forma
23.
}
23.
24
25.
}
25.
26.
27.
?
28
29.
30.
31.
Plocam. costatum
32.
33.
?
34
sec. auct.
35.
36.
37
38
39.
40
auct.?
16
No form of Chorda lomentaria described by J. Agardh is listed in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).
41.
42.-43
44.
45.
46
47.
48
49.
50
51.
17
S. agardhii ?
52.
53.
54.
55.
56
57.
58
59.
60
61.
62-63
64.
fragm. vix determ. an Curdiaea
[fragment scarcely determined towards Curdiaea]
65
Curdiaea
18
Curdiea?
laciniata
66.
67.
an fragm. ?
68
Gelidium
glandulaefolium
69.
idem.
70.
vacat.
71.
Cystoph. micromera
19
Neither Cystophera micromera nor Cystophyllum micromera in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).
J Ag.
72
73.
74.
Gelidum glandulaefolium
75
Laurencia sp. an Laur. heterocladae forma?
[towards the form of Laur. Heteroclada]
76.
77.
78.
79.
80
81.
82.
Ptilota fragm.
82
83
84.
85.
86.
Conferva sp. vix cert. determ.
[scarcely determined with certainty]
87.
88
Laurencia an L. heteroclada (in qua
[towards L. heteroclada (there being in it)]
89.
90.
91.
92.
Cystophora
siliquosa
93.
subfarcinata
94
subfarcinata
95.
Peyssonellia
20
Peyssonelia ?
multifida
96.
97.
21
Griffithsia Sonderiana not in AlgaeBase (accessed 26 July 2018).
98
?
99.
100
101.
Laurencia sp. an L. heteroclada forma.
102.
103.
.
104.
.
sine numero (an no 70?)
Acrotylus australis
J G Agardh
Algae ex Streaky bay, ad J. P. Dowling 1889 collectae
[Algae collected from Streaky Bay by J. P. Dowling 1889].
Sargassum
varians.
biforme (fragm.)?
Cystophora
Brownii
retorta
Monilifera
Scaberia
Agardhi
22
S. agardhii ?
Zonaria
Turneriana
Caulerpa
Brownii
Dasyphila
Preissii
Haloplegma
Preissii
Plocamium
flexuosum
coccineum form.
Preissianum
Nidificum
Hymenocladia
divaricata
Phacelocarpus
Sessilis
Calophyllis
Lambertii
Laurencia
Forsteri
Sarcomenia
Delesserioides
Alsidium
Comosum
Polysiphonia
Cancellata
Thuretia
Quercifolia
Dasya
}
fragmenta
[fragments]
Pollexfenia
J G Agardh
Algae ex Champion bay W. Austral. sub 1889 a Spalding lectae
[Algae collected from Champion Bay, Western Australia 1889 by Spalding].
Sargassum
falcat.
23
S. falcatatum .
isophyllum
biforme
?
Halyseris sp. (H. Muelleri?)
24
See n. 4, above.
Plocamium
Preissianum
nidificum
Hymenocladia
linearis
lanceolata
Rhodophyllis
membranacea
blepharicarpa
Nitophylloides.
sp.
Laurencia (L. heteroclada forma)
Kuetzingia
canaliculata
angusta
J G Agardh
Algae from Geographe bay a Mrs Irvine lectae,1889 mihi missae
[Algae from Geographe Bay collected by Mrs Irvine sent to me in 1889].
Cystophora
racemosa
Grevillei
monilifera
Platythalia Quercifolia
Zonaria Sinclairii?
Cladostephus verticillatusforma australis
Caulerpa
Cactoides
Brownii
Sonderi
Hypnoides
Ptilota coralloidea
Callophyllis
coccinea
Lambertii
Plocamium
procerum
coccineum?
angustum
nidificum
Phacelocarpus
sessilis
Labillardieri
Curdiaea nov. sp.?
Gracillaria furcellata?
Stenocladia Sonderiana
fragment of Nitophyllum
Gelidium patens
episcopalis
Laurencia
Forsteri
heteroclada
luxurians
fragm. of Rhodomela
Trigenea australis
J Ag.
25
Corallina cuvieri?
Amphiroa Charoides
J G Agardh
Algae ex Champion Bay, sub 1889 a Dr Elliott lectae
[Algae from Champion Bay 1889 collected by Dr Elliott
26
Charles Elliott.
].
.
Dilophus moniliformis J. Ag. nov. sp.
Ptilota coralloidea
Phacelocarpus alatus?
Stenocladia Sonderiana
Plocamium
Preissianum
nidificum
Hymenocladia Ramalina?
Rhodophyllis
sp.?
Nitophylloides.
Erythroclonium
Sonderi
pyriferum
Kützingia angusta
.
J Ag.
J G Agardh
Algae ex Ulverstone Tasmaniae a D. W. Spencer 1889 collectae
[Algae from Ulverstone, Tasmania collected 1889 by D.W. Spencer].
27
Neither this collection or its collector has been mentioned in either the cover letter above or in any other surviving correspondence between M and J. Agardh, but the list was most likely included here. An effectively identical list is filed with J. Agardh to M, 4 May 1890.
.
Macrocystis (fragm. […])
Plocamium
angustum
costatum
Thamnoclonium claviferum
.
J G Agardh
Lund, Sweden, 29 September 1889
Highly esteemed Baron!
Since I am now pretty well finished with the determination of the collections sent to me this year, I venture to give you information about them in the enclosed specific list.
Among those collections that come from old more searched localities there is probably hardly anything new to be expected. Therefore I would not expect hardly anything new from Tasmania where R. Gunn brought together such excellent collections. However among the algae from Miss Lodder
28
M sent two packets of Lodder's algae collections to Agardh; see M to J. Agardh, 30 June 1889 (in this edition as 89-06-30b).
I have found a new Ptilonia (Pt. subulifera), of which a fragment collected by Wilson
29
John Bracebridge Wilson.
was already found in a collection sent to Sonder. It is easily differentiated from Ptil. australasica; but in habitus and structure has great similarity to - but the cystocarp is quite different. As it seems to me there is also a new species of Ecklonia among the algae of Miss Lodder, of which I send a small fragment. I would be glad to be able to describe a complete specimen of it as .
30
not in AlgaeBase (accessed 25 July 2018).
In the rather considerable collection from Port Fairy there is hardly anything new. Also the small collection from Streaky Bay seems to contain hardly anything rare. The collection from Johnston River
31
Johnstone Creek, Qld. See J. Agardh to M, 4 May 1890, for identifications of this collection.
contains only a few species that I have not yet closely investigated. On the other hand several algae of special interest were in the collections from Geographe Bay and especially that from Champion Bay .
Among the algae from Geographe Bay I found a [tendril] of a new species of Curdiea that comes very close to Curd. coriacea from New Zealand in habitus, but has pedunculate cystocarps. Also a new Lenormandia (L. hypoglossum) looking quite like a was among them.
The collection from Champion Bay that Dr Elliott
32
Charles Elliott.
sent contained a new species of Dilophus, easy to differentiate by the spirally wound frond; a new species of Vidalia (V. intermedia); and the otherwise barely described seen by Lamouroux, of which, as far as I know, only the single specimen of Lamouroux has been found until now; of which the more exact locality was previously not known.
Of the collection made by Spalding, which was indicated as almost unusable as of algae decayed and stuck together with the paper on both sides, I did manage to prepare out several rarities. Among them are some specimens of Lenormandia latifilia Harv. Nereis,
33
Harvey (1848), p. 19.
which he afterwards relegated to a variety of L. spectabilis, but seems to be a quite different species; and L. hypoglossum. already mentioned above.
I have probably mentioned that Miss Lodder has also sent together with the numbered specimens, others not with numbers and that she wants a piece of these latter with names sent back to keep. However, just among these are several larger algae (Cystophora species) that she would hardly differentiate from fragments. I certainly have it easier to name such algae from fragments. I therefore think the old method to send numbered specimens here is preferable.
With best greetings
Your
J.G. Agardh
[List follows as above]