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RB MSS M86B, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 81.12.26aPreferred Citation:
Mordecai Cooke to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-12-26 [81.12.26a]. 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/1880-9/1881/81-12-26a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
1
The list is one of a number sent by Cooke that are now in the library of the Royal
Botanic Gardens Melbourne. See notes to M. Cooke to M, 17 January 1885, for a discussion of Cooke's author attributions.
Unless otherwise noted, all entries with an identifying number or letter have an ink
✓
to the left of the numeral or letter.
FNI and
Index fungorum
were accessed
2
6
June 2021.
The text comprises one folio, folded into four pages.
The bottom left of the first
page
has been annotated by J. H. Willis '
26
December 1886'.
The list is arranged implicitly in five columns: reference number, Genus, species
epithet and author, location, collector. This arrangement is formalised in this transcription.
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Cynophallus
|
Caleyi Berk
|
Clarence River
2
NSW.
|
Willcox
|
|
59
|
Polyporus
|
sp eaten away
|
Richmond River
3
NSW. There is no
✓
against this entry.
|
|
|
133
|
Indeterminable
|
|
Nanina NSW
4
Location not identified. \ against this entry where a
✓
might be expected.
|
Haswell
|
|
|
Thelephora
|
intybaceus Fr
5
FNI lists Persoon as the author, not Fries.
|
Sydney
|
Scott
6
Probably
Harriet Scott
.
There is a
pencilled X
against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
Sowerbei B
|
Twofold Bay
7
NSW
|
White
|
|
103
|
Stereum
|
Thozetii B
|
S W Australia
|
Muir
|
|
122
|
Immature Polyporus
|
|
Do
|
Do
|
|
|
Stereum
|
confusum B
|
Lake Muir
8
WA.
|
Do
9
There is a
pencilled X
against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Twofold Bay
|
White
10
There is no
✓
against this entry.
|
|
119
|
Stereum
|
hirsutum Fr
11
FNI lists Persoon as the author of this combination, not Fries.
|
S W Australia
|
Muir
|
|
53
|
"
|
"
|
Toorvoomba
12
i.e. Toowoomba, Qld.
|
Hartmann
13
Carl Hartmann.
|
|
49
|
"
|
purpureum
Fr
14
FNI lists Persoon as the author of this combination, not Fries.
|
Illawarra
15
NSW.
|
Karsten
16
Error for Kirton? Karsten is not known to have collected other than in far north Qld
;
see George (2009) and AVH data. William Kirton is known to have collected in the relevant
area, including fungi.
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Twofold Bay
|
White
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Toorvoomba
|
Hartmann
|
|
|
"
|
rugosum Fr
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
17
There is a
pencilled X against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
illudens B
|
N E Tasmania
|
Wintle
|
|
|
"
|
Schomburgckii B
18
S. schomburgkii?
|
Port
Denison
19
Now Bowen, Qld.
|
Shann
|
|
92
|
"
|
"
|
Richmond River
|
Camara
20
There is no
✓
against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
|
|
15
|
"
|
" (jun.)
21
i.e. junior =
Junior in the sense of young or immature. See discussion in notes to
M. Cooke to M, 26 March 1889
(
in this edition as 89-03-26a
)
.
|
Port Denison
|
Shann
|
|
85
|
Hymenochaete
|
phaea B
|
Tweed River
22
NSW.
|
Camara
23
There is a
pencilled X
but no
✓
against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Mount Dryander
24
Qld.
|
Shann
|
|
69
|
"
|
tenuissima B
|
Tweed River
|
Camara
|
|
|
Schizophyllum
|
commune
|
Port Denison
|
Shann
|
|
|
Irpex
|
flavus Jung
25
FNI lists Klotzch as the author of this combination, not
Junghuhn.
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
|
|
134
|
"
|
"
|
Rockhampto
n
26
Qld.
|
Thozet
|
|
60
|
"
|
zonatus B
|
Richmond River
|
Camara
27
There is no
✓
against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
coriacea
28
I. coriaceus? In neither FNI nor Cook (1892).
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
|
|
|
Hydnum
|
flavum
|
Toorvoomba
|
Hartmann
|
|
117
|
Clavaria
|
flava
|
S W Australia
|
Muir
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Twofold Bay
|
White
|
|
|
"
|
kunzei Fr
|
Trinity Bay
29
Qld.
|
Karsten
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Mount Dryander
|
Shann
30
This is the last entry on page
1
.
|
|
|
Panus
|
conchatus Fr
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
31
There is a
pencilled X against this and the following entry.
|
|
|
Clavaria
|
muscoides Fr
|
Paramatta River
32
Parramatta? NSW.
|
|
|
|
Polyporus
|
lilacinogilvus B
|
Twofold Bay
|
White
|
|
|
"
|
tephronotus B
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
|
|
|
"
|
ochroleucus B
|
Toorvoomba
|
Hartmann
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Sydney
|
Miss Scott
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Twofold Bay
|
White
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Longford Tasm.
|
Appleyard
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Albany
33
WA.
|
|
|
|
"
|
ferreus B
|
Richmond River
|
Camara
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Port Denison
|
Shann
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Tweed River
|
Camara
|
|
|
"
|
rufescens Fr
|
Lake Muir
|
Muir
34
There is a
pencilled X against this entry
.
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
|
|
|
"
|
chioneus Fr
|
Richmond River
|
Camara
35
There is a
pencilled X against this entry
.
|
|
|
Hexagona
36
Hexagonia?
|
polygramma Fr
|
Tweed River
|
Camara
|
|
|
Polyporus
|
australis Fr
|
Port Denison
|
Shann
37
There is a
pencilled X against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Richmond River
|
Camara
|
|
|
"
|
Palliseri B
|
Loddon River
38
Probably Vic; there is also Loddon River in south-west Tasmania.
|
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Narranoom
39
Narracan, Vic? E. J. Stanger who opened the Narracan school and who resided at Narracan West in 1884 (see E. Stranger to M, 21 April 1884
(in this edition as 84-04-21a)) is known to have collected for M, including fungi.
|
Stranger
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Toorvoomba
|
Hartmann
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Trinity Bay
|
Karsten
|
|
|
"
|
cinnabarinus Fr
|
Narranoom
|
Stranger
|
|
|
"
|
adustus Fr
|
Do
|
Do
40
There is a
pencilled X against this entry.
|
|
|
Schizophyllum
|
commune Fr
|
Do
|
Do
|
|
|
Polyporus
|
fulvus Fr
|
Twofold Bay
|
White
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Toorvoomba
|
Hartmann
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
King Georges Sound
41
WA.
|
Harris
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Port Denison
|
Shann
|
|
|
Trametes
|
devexa B
|
Toorvoomba
|
Hartmann
|
|
|
"
|
laevis
42
T. levis?
|
Port Denison
|
Shann
|
|
|
Polyporus
|
fomentarius Fr
|
Twofold Bay
|
White
43
There is a
pencilled X against this entry.
|
|
|
"
|
"
|
Clarence River
|
Willcox
44
The is the last entry on page 2.
|
|
|
Boletus
|
subtomentosus Fr
45
FNI lists Linnaeus as the author of this combination, not
Fries.
|
Lake Muir
|
Muir
|
|
|
Stereum
|
illudens B
|
Narranoom
|
Stranger
|
|
|
"
|
spadiceum Fr
46
S. spadiceum
not in FNI, but in Cooke (1892), p. 186. There is a
pencilled X against this entry.
|
"
|
"
|
|
|
Polyporus
|
versicolor Fr
|
"
|
"
|
|
|
"
|
carneus N
|
"
|
"
|
|
|
Imperfect resupinate Hydnum
|
Illawarra
|
|
|
M C Cooke
D
ec 26 188
1
Boletus subtomentosus
Clavaria flava
Clavaria kunzei
Clavaria muscoides
Cynophallus Caleyi
Hexagona polygramma
Hydnum flavum
Hymenochaete phaea
Hymenochaete tenuissima
Irpex coriacea
Irpex flavus
Irpex zonatus
Panus conchatus
Polyporus adustus
Polyporus australis
Polyporus carneus
Polyporus chioneus
Polyporus cinnabarinus
Polyporus ferreus
Polyporus fomentarius
Polyporus fulvus
Polyporus lilacinogilvus
Polyporus ochroleucus
Polyporus Palliseri
Polyporus rufescens
Polyporus tephronotus
Polyporus versicolor
Schizophyllum commune
Stereum confusum
Stereum hirsutum
Stereum illudens
Stereum purpureum
Stereum rugosum
Stereum Schomburgckii
Stereum spadiceum
Stereum Thozetii
Thelephora intybaceus
Thelephora Sowerbei
Trametes devexa
Trametes laevis