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RB MSS M 108a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 83.06.00Preferred Citation:
Jacob Agardh to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-06. 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/1880-9/1883/83-06-00-final.odt>, accessed June 17, 2026
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MS is undated but is annotated by M: 'Names sent to Tepper 17/8/83' [see M to O. Tepper,
17 August 1883]. It is dated to June as the latest it could have been sent by Agardh to have
reached Melbourne in August. M does not acknowledge receipt of this list in his surviving
letters to Agardh.
[List of names of]
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Translations are below the relevant text, in brackets.
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Algae from St Vincents Gulf.
by Mr Tepper
.
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SA.
No 470 Cystophora spartioides?
662-663. Cladophorae sordibus obtectae, non determinandae
[Cladophorae covered in filth, not determined]
665. Pterocladia lucida
666. Dicranema Grevillei
668. Sargassum sp (nimium juvenile)
669.
Sarg. verruculosum
juven.
670. Dasyphila Preissii
671. Pterocladia lucida
672
Dilophus fastigiatus
(= Dict.
fastigiata Sond.)
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Dictyota.
673 Cystophora Brownii
674 Haloplegma Preissii
675. Pollexfenia pedicellata
676
Zonaria crenata
J. Ag.
677
Dictyosphaeria sericea
Harv.
678 Zonaria sp. juv. (an ad Z. Diesingianam)
679
Zonaria nigrescens
680 Chrysymenia obovata
681
Pollexfenia? ciliaris
nov. sp.
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Not in AlgaeBase (accessed 29 October 2019).
682. Fauchea sp. ab spec. incompl.
683. Letterstedtia australis
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Not in AlgaeBase (accessed 29 October 2019).
684 Dictyota paniculata
685 Sargassum form. juven. an Sarg. Sonderi fragm?
686 Zonaria Turneriana
687, 688, 689, 690. Corallina Cuvieri
691. Amphiroa stelligera
692 Laurencia forsteri
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Details for nos 692-713 were already sent in J. Agardh to M, 10 January 1883. Variations in identifications are noted with that letter.
693. Zoophyt.
694. Plocamium procerum
695 Ploc. angustum
696, 697, 698, 699 = Pl. nidificum
700 Asparagops. armata
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Asparagopsis armata.
701
Hymenocladia divaricata
702 Laurencia Forsteri
703 Griffithsia sp. steril.
videt. Griff. antarctica
704. Polysiphonia (ad P. Hookeri forsan acced.
[(perhaps approaching P. Hookeri]
705 Areschougia Laurencia
706 Erythroclon.
Sonderi
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Erythroclonium.
707. Dasya sp. ad D. Haffiae?
708. Plocam. nidificum
709 Laurencia Forsteri
710 Areschougia Laurencia
711 Gelidium corneum Harv.
712
Cladophora Bainesii
H & M.
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Published in Harvey (1858-63), vol. 2, plate 112, with authorship given as 'F. Muell.
et Harv.'.
713.
Caulerpa flexilis
J. Ag.
714. Plocam. nidificum
715 Hydroclathrus cancellatus
718. Sporochnus ad sp. radicif.
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radiciformis.
91. Codium tomentosum form. tenuior
[more slender form]
2.
Algae from Kings Island.
by Mr
Spong
.
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King Island, Tas.
1 & 2 Zoophyta
3. Callophyllis coccinea
4 Plocamium nidificum
5 Sphacelar. paniculata
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Sphacelaria paniculata.
6. Bellotia Eriophorum
7 Plocam. Preissianum
9 Myriodesma integrifolium
3.
Algae from Port Jackson
by Ramsay
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NSW.
1. Pterocladia lucida
2 Splachnidium rugosum
3. Letterstedtia australis
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Not in Algaebase (accessed 29 October 2019).
4. Gelidium corneum
5. Plocamium angustum
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6.
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Laurencia sp.
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}
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non bene determinand
[not well determined]
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7.
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Martensia sp.
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Amphiroa stelligera
Areschougia Laurencia
Asparagopsis armata
Bellotia Eriophorum
Callophyllis coccinea
Caulerpa flexilis
Chrysymenia obovata
Cladophora Bainesii
Codium tomentosum
Corallina Cuvieri
Cystophora Brownii
Cystophora spartioides
Dasya Haffiae
Dasyphila Preissii
Dicranema Grevillei
Dictyosphaeria sericea
Dictyota fastigiata
Dilophus fastigiatus
Erythroclonium sonderi
Fauchea
Gelidium corneum
Griffithsia antarctica
Haloplegma Preissii
Hydroclathrus cancellatus
Hymenocladia divaricata
Laurencia Forsteri
Letterstedtia australis
Myriodesma integrifolium
Plocamium angustum
Plocamium nidificum
Plocamium preissianum
Plocamium procerum
Pollexfenia ciliaris
Pollexfenia pedicellata
Polysiphonia Hookeri
Pterocladia lucida
Sargassum Sonderi
Sargassum verruculosum
Splachnidium rugosum
Sporochnus
radiciformis
Zonaria crenata
Zonaria Diesingiana
Zonaria nigrescens
Zonaria Turneriana