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Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 82.10.03

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1882-10-03. 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/1880-9/1882/82-10-03-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

3/10/82
It may be just as well, dear Mr Ramsay, to mention, that
Pterocladia lucida

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& and
Plocamium angustum

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are well known seaweeds, discovered long ago, and of wide range along the Australian coasts, I collected specimens of both 30 years ago; so they are not new, though Dr J. Agardh stands sponsor to them It is as well, that I should mention this to you, because others might point out, that we had given old species as new ones.
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Both these species were listed in Ramsay's note read to the Linnean Society of New South Wales on 27 September 1877, and published in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of NSW, vol. 8 (1883), p. 402. He wrote
the marine flora of Port Jackson and the adjacent coast is worthy of special attention and research, several new species and a new genus having been recently discovered on our shores. The following species from Bondi have been determined by Professor Agardh, of Lund, the greatest authority on Algae:
Pterocladia lucida

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, J. Agardh; Splachnidium rugosum, Greville; Lederstedtia australis, J. Agardh. (nov. gen.et sp.); Gelidium corneum, Greville;
Plocamium angustum

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, J. Agardh.
You will find them noted in the XI. vol. of the fragmenta.
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Fragmenta, vol. 11, Supplement 1 (by W. Sonder), pp. 18, 26.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.