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ML MSS B202, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. Fn 80.02.18a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Bailey, 1880-02-18 [Fn 80.02.18a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-02-18a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

18/2/80
Herewith, dear Mr Bailey, I send you from the "Grevillea" a reprint, concerning fungi, chiefly from poor Mons. Thozets & Mr OShanesy's collections.
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Thümen (1875).
Should you have this print already, then please return it.
In the "Grevillea" of Dec. 1879 a number of Australian Fungi are mentioned along with Berggren's New Zealand species, but they are all from the vicinity of Port Phillip,
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Cooke (1879). Together with part of Berggren's collection of NZ fungi assembled in 1874-5, Cooke listed 'a few species collected at the same time on the "Dividing range" in the north of Melbourne'. Sven Berggren
and you require — if I remember rightly — only the QL.
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Qld.
& N.S.W. species From Armits northern collection are named:
Polyporus Armitii

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Kalchbrenner. (the name, given by me, was preoccupied lately)
Hexagona erinigera

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, Fries
Podaxon pistillare

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, Fries
Lentinus subnudus

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Berk.
Stereum nitidulum

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Berk
Agaricus silenus

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B&B.
Xylaria hypoxylon

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, Fries
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Each name in this list has been ticked in the margin.
From various parts of Queensland & New South Wales are mentioned in 1878 (in the Ratisbon Bot. Zeitung)
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Thümen (1878).
Agaricus sapineus

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, Fries.
Lenzites Palisotii

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, Fries.
Polyporus rimosus

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, Berkeley.
P. flavus, Junghuhn.
P. fulvus, Fries.
P. Biretum, Kalchbrenner
Stereum striatum

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, Fries.
Stereum luteo-badium Fries.
Cladoderris australis

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Kalchbrenner
Hymenochaete rigidula

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Berkeley
Xylaria tabacina

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, Kich.
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Each name in the list, to this point, except
Hymenochaete rigidula

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Berkeley, has been ticked in the margin, presumably by Bailey.
Meliola Tetracerae

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F.v Mueller & Thümen
Puccinea straminis, Fuck.
P. Chondrillae, Corda.
Sorosporium Eriachenis

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S. eriachnei?
Thuemen
Bispora monilioides

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Corda
Sporotrichum densum

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Link
Mr Robertson has not yet applied to me about your manuscript on ferns;
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Presumably the work eventually published by Gordon & Gotch, not Robertson, as Bailey (1881).
if he does I will be happy to support your literary efforts, so far as my recommendations go; but with exception of one single lecture of mine, he has never undertaken the print of any works of mine.
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B77.13.05.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Pastor Kalchbrenner has sent the msc of many more Fungi recently to Cooke
The Dicksonia from Frasers Island
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Fraser Island, Qld.
got among the unsorted (laid aside) accumulated additional collections. I have had lately no leisure to insert any; so it will take me some time to find it. I still believe that it it like the one from Bellenden Ker Mountains
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Qld.
namely
Dicksonia Youngiae

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(D. squarrosa var?)
Best thanks to Dr Bancroft for his kind offer of the bark of
Alstonia

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; I will see to this & write further on the subjec[t.]
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Word partly obscured by binding tape.
It seems, that Mr Moore engaged a Mr Weber for his Museum lately;
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See C. Moore to M, 19 February 1880.
he is to me a stranger.