Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M108b, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 82.04.12

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Friedrich Kützing to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-04-12. 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/1880-9/1882/82-04-12-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with specimen no. 41,
Spirogyra pellucida

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, among unmounted Australian freshwater algae. The address and the handwriting are Kützing's. Translations appear immediately below the German text in relevant entries.
Nordhausen, Provinz Sachsen,
[Province of Saxony]
d. 12 April 1882.
Verehrter Herr!
Die mir unter dem 16/2 d. J. übersandten Süsswasseralgen von Port Phillip habe ich untersucht u. theile Ihnen als Resultat folgendes mit.
[Respected Sir,
I have investigated the fresh-water algae sent to me enclosed in yours of 16 February this year
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and inform you of the results as follows:]
No 3.
Batrachospermum

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...? vielleicht neu? ist aber in der Zersetzung begriffen. Als Schmarotzer darin Fragillaria grandis.
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Batrachospermum

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...? perhaps new? is, however, in the process of decomposition. Fragilaria grandis as parasite in it.]
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dasselbe, aber forma denudata.
[the same, but denudata form.]
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Oscillaria subfusca

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?—die braune, unter d. Mikroskop körnige Masse scheint auch ein Zersetzungsproduct zu sein. Das Exemplar ist in Betreff der Oscillarienfäden noch unentwickelt.
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Oscillaria subfusca

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?—the brown mass, granular under the microscope, seems also to be a product of decomposition. The specimen is still undeveloped in respect to the vibrating filaments.]
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Spirogyra pellucida

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Oedogonium capillare

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13.
Oscillaria tenuis

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Vaucheria clavata

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Spirogyra flavicans

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, var. artic. longioribus.
[variety with longer segments.]
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Vaucheria clavata

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10.
Spirogyra decimina

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20.
dieselbe
[the same]
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Conferva tenerrima

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32.
Stigeoclonium elongatum

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Oedogonium vesicatum

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(sterile).
34.
Conferva affinis γ abbreviata.
35.
Vaucheria velutina

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36.
Cladophora debilis

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Enteromorpha compressa

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38.
Vaucheria clavata

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39.
Cladophora debilis

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40.
Zygnema scalare

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(vor der Copulation)
[(before the copulation)]
41.
Spirogyra pellucida

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