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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1869-12 [69.12.00e]. 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//letters/1860-9/1869/69-12-00e-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette, 12 February 1870, p. 211 (B70.02.01). It is dated to December 1869 as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to appear in this issue.
The text is introduced by ‘We have just received the following notice from Dr. F. von Mueller’. It is followed by a comment, signed 'M.J.B.' [Miles Joseph Berkeley]: 'There surely must be some mistakes here. It is an extremely unlikely matrix for a species of Xenodochus, the only known species growing on the leaves of the greater Burnet, while wood is a still more unlikely locality. It is possible, from the last paragraph, that the supposed genus Xylostroma is meant. It is highly desirable to have specimens of both. There was nothing of the kind in the examples submitted last year to the Scientific Committee, by Dr. GILBERT.'
The fungus which causes here (in Australia) the terrible ROOT BLIGHT IN CEREALS (Take-all of the colonists) seems a new species of Xenodochus (X. Cerealium) allied to X. ligniperda, which destroys the wood of Firs, Beeches, &c.
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See also M to C. Mücke, 26 August 1873, and Mücke (1870). M responded to the note in M to Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette , August 1870 (in this edition as 70-08-00a) (B70.09.01).