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RB MSS M108a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 84.09.14

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Jacob Agardh to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-09-14. 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/84-09-14>, accessed September 10, 2025

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MS annotated by M: 'Beantw 1/11/84. FvM' [Replied 1 November 1884 FvM]. The translation is given after the letter, before the transcription of the accompanying list of Algae.
Lund 14 Sept. 1884.
Hochgeehrter Herr Baron!
In der letzten Brief glaube ich Ihnen gemeldet zu haben dass das paket mit Algen von Rottnest noch nicht hier eingetroffen wäre. Erst vor etwa 8 Tagen ist es in meinen Händen, und ich sende Ihnen heute die Nahmen liste der enthalten Algen. Sie werden vielleicht schon bemerkt haben dass von vielen numeros keine Specimina sich vorfinden.
Auch erlaube ich mir heute die Nahmen liste der von Hrn Br. Wilson gesammelten und durch Ihre Gute beförderten Sammlung überzusenden. Wie gewöhnlich enthält diese Samlung viel interessantes, und auch einige neue Arten, so gar glaube ich 2 neue Gattungen, von denen doch die eine Glaphyrymenia in einer der fruher übergesandten [Nr 1] durch ein steriles exemplar vertreten war. Von der andern (sub No 49) liegen nur sterile Exemplare vor, und darum ist es mir sogar unmöglich über affinitet der neuen Gattung was zu sagen.
Weil Ich einige Bemerkungen über meine Bestimmungen zu machen wunschte, habe ich es gewagt heute an Hrn Wilson auch direct zu schreiben unter addr. Geelong; habe Ihm auch ein besonderes Exemplar der Nahmen liste mitgetheilt. Weil ich aber wegen der Addrese unsicher bin, habe ich mir erlaubt auch Ihnen ein Nahmen Verzeichnis zu übersenden.
Vor etwa 14 Tagen ist ein neues paket mit Algen für Sie an meinen Expediteur übergeliefert um über Hamburg Ihnen zugestellt zu werden. Es enthält eine möglichst compl. Samlung der New Zeeländer Algen so wie Exemplare derjenigen Neu Holländer, die Ich von Interesse für Sie vermuthen durfte.
Indem ich hoffe dass Ihre Gesundheits Zustand sich verbessert sende ich Ihnen meine beste Gr[üss]e und zeichnet ergebenst
J G Agardh
Lund 14 September 1884
Highly esteemed Baron!
In the last letter
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Letter not found.
I believe I reported to you that the packet of algae from Rottnest
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Rottnest Island, WA.
had not yet arrived here. Only about 8 days ago did it come into my hands, and today I am sending you the list of names of the algae received. You will perhaps already have noted that there are no specimens for many numbers.
Also I permit myself today to send the list of names of the collection put together by Mr Wilson and forwarded through your kindness. As usual this collection contains many interesting things and also some new species, I believe even two new genera, of which indeed one, Glaphyrymenia, was represented in one of the previously sent [number 1] by a sterile specimen. Of the others (under No. 49) only sterile specimens are available, and because of that it is quite impossible for me to say anything about the affinity of the new genus.
Because I wished to make some remarks about my determinations, today I have ventured also to write directly to Mr Wilson addressed to Geelong;
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Letter not found.
I have also communicated to him a separate copy of the list of names. However, because I am uncertain of his address, I have also permitted myself to send you a name index.
About 14 days ago a new packet with algae for you was delivered to my forwarding agent to be delivered to you via Hamburg. It contains a collection as complete as possible of New Zealand algae as well as specimens of those of New Holland that I assume might be of interest to you.
Hoping that your health is improving, I send you my best greetings and sign most humbly
J. G. Agardh
Algae from Rottnest Island, by Webb;
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William Webb; see M to J. Agardh, 15 February 1886.
received
Sept. 1884.
Of many numbers no specimen received; I have only seen:
No 2.
Galaxaura umbellata

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var. fere Gal. major Decsne.
4.
Laurencia elata

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Harv.
6.
Mastophora rostrata

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6
Not in AlgaeBase (accessed 13 January 2020). Silva, Basson & Moe (1996), p. 261, state that '
Mastophora rostrata

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is a manuscript name applied by J. Agardh in his herbarium to two specimens from Wesern Australia'.
J Ag.
7.
Halimeda macroloba

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Decsne
8.
Ptilota coralloidea

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10.
Zonaria nigrescens

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Sond.
12
Laurencia concinna

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13
Scytothalia dorycarpa

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14.
Hypnea seticulosa

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15.
Sargassum fragm. forsan S. biformis Sond.
17.
Caulerpa Sonderi

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18
Laurencia Forsteri

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20.
Spyridia filamentosa

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22.
Pterocladia lucida

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24.
Turbinaria vulgaris

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25.
Plocamium procerum

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25A.
Plocamium coccineum

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26.
Sargassi fragm. forsan S. biformis.
26A.
Sargassi fragm. forsan Sarg. lanceolat.?
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S. lanceolatum.
27.
Galaxaura collabens

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28
Dictyota paniculata

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28.
Champia affinis

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Harv.
29.
Caulerpa Cactoides form. opuntia .
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The form opuntia is not listed in Algaebase (accessed 13 January 2020).
30
Dilophus fastigiatus

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J Ag.
31.
Cladophora Valonioides

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32.
Bryopsis

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sp. perhaps identical with No 571 Harv. Alg. exsicc. Aust.
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Harvey in his distributed sets did not identify no. 571 to species level (Harvey (1857)).
32.A.
Halophlegma Preissii

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34.
Dasya sp. (sterilis cum D. multiceps comparenda.
35
Caulerpa scalpelliformis

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36.
Not Alga.
37.
Caulerpa cylindracea

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39.
Codium Muelleri

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39A .
Sarcocladia obesa

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44.
Thysanocladia coriacea

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46.
Dasyphila Preissii

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46A
Laurencia Forsteri

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47.
Corallina Cuvierii

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10
cuvieri?
49.
Caulerpa Muelleri

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54.
Rhodymenia australis

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.
57.
Plocamium coccineum

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60.
Caulerpa distichophylla

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61.
Asparagopsis armata

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63.
Caulerpa Hypnoides

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65
Caulocystis uvifera

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Aresch.
66.
Caulerpa Cactoides forma Corynephora

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68.
Platythalia Quercifolia

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69
Hypnea episcopalis

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70.
Not Alga. Sertularia? sp.
71.
Hypnea episcopalis

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72.
Laurencia Forsteri

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Algae from J. Bracebr. Wilson, rec. Aug. 1884.
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This list commences on a separate sheet of paper, annotated in pencil in the upper margin by M 'Specimens named'. The parcel with these algae was dispatched from Melbourne with the same mail steamer as M to J. Agardh, 10 June 1884.
1.
Rhizoclonii sp. near to
Conferva arenosa

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Harv.
2.
Cladophora sp. on which a
Diatomacea

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(
Licmophora

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sp) near to
Exilaria flabellata

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Grev.
3.
Cladophora, near to C. flavescens
4.
Cladophora, near to C. pellucida.
5.
Enteromorpha bulbosa

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Suhr
6.
Enterom. lingulata (brevior)
7.
Enterom lingulata (elongata)
8.
Bryopsis

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sp. = no 571 in Harv. Alg. austr. exsicc.
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See Harvey (1857).
9.
Caulerpa sp. perhaps new sp. near to C. Brownii.
10
Conferva valida

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Hook & H.
11.
Wrangelia plumosa

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(denudata)
12.
Carpoglossum confluens

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.
13.
Cystophora platylobium

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14.
Haliseris Muelleri

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15
Zonaria nigrescens

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Sond.
16.
Dilophus opacus

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J Ag.
17.
Fucodium chondrophyllum

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18.
Dictyota sp. (D. ocellata J Ag. olim)
19.
Dictyota sp. non determin.
20
Dictyota pellucida

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J Ag. = no 65 of a form. collect.
13
In the list of Wilson's species in J. Agardh to M, November 1882 (in this edition as 82-11-00a), no. 65 is given as 'Dictyota pinnatifida?'.
21.
Dilophus sp. perhaps D. fastigiatus young.
22
Dictyota sp.
23.
Polysiphonia hystrix

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24
Dasya naccarioides

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.
25.
Polysiphonia australis

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Ag = P. cladostephus Harv.
26.
Dasya hapalathrix

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.
27.
Dasya sp. (antheridiis) an D. Gunniana?
28.
Bonnemaisonia Asparagoides

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(new form, for Australia!)
29.
Dasya pellucida

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Harv.
30
Wrangelia princeps

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Harv.
31
Spyridia?
}
glomeruliferus
= no. 66.
Thamnocarpus?
32.
vacat. (no specimen)
33.
Dasya Wilsonis

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J. Ag. nov. sp.
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Described in J. Agardh (1873-90), part 6, p. 88. See the bibliographical comment in n. 2, T. Ware to M, 12 June 1874 (in this edition as 74-06-12a).
34
Callithamnion plumigerum

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35
Dasya Feredayae (contractior)
36.
Griffithsia sp. an Gr. elongatae forma?
37,
Polysiphonia sphacelarioides

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J. Ag. n. sp.
15
Described in J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, p. 100.
38
Sphacelaria sp. vix determinanda, with filaments of 37.
39.
Sphacelaria paniculata (forma near to Sph. Hordeacea.)
40
Rhodomela periclados

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Sond.
41.
Griffithsia elongata

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42.
Callithamnion Hanovioides

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43.
Wrangelia crassa

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(young)
44.
Chondriopsis Harveyana

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45.
Rhodoglossi sp. (antheridiis) near to Rh. lanceolatum?)
46.
Thysanocladia laxa

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Sond.
47.
Areschougia sp. (A. intermedia J. Ag. / near to A. Stuartii) on the specimen collect. 8/2 84. I found parasitical Callith. verticale
48.
Sporochnus apodus

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49??
new form to me! Specimens with fruit most acceptable
50
Laurencia Forsteri

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51.
Erythroclonium Muelleri

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52A.
Chondriopsis Harveyana

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" B.
from Symonds Channel 9/1 84 is Chondr. corallorhiza J Ag.
" B.
West Channel is Chond. dasyphylla Harv.
53
Sarcomenia Delesserioides

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54.
Dilophus tener

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J Ag.
55.
Dictyota furcellata

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56.
Dilophus sp. (perhaps D. foliosus nudus )
57.
Nitophyllum pristoideum

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58
Delesseria heterocystidea

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J Ag. = no 84 of a form. collection
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In the list of Wilson's species in J. Agardh to M, 23 August 1883 (in this edition as 83-08-00a), no. 84 is given as ' Delesseria sp. nov?'.
59.
Gracilaria furcellata

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Harv.
60
Phacelocarpus Labillardieri

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61
Corallina Cuvieri forma near to C. Cuvieri crispata
62
Ceramium gracillimum

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63
Monospora australis

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64
Gigartina pinnata

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65
Gracilaria? sp. perhaps form of Gr. Lichenoides)
66
Spyridia?
}
glomeruliferus
= no. 31
Thamnocarpus?
no fruit being found the Genus is not to be determinated.
67.
Griffithsia sp. perhaps = no 18, collect. of 1883.
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In Agardh’s list of Wilson's species in J. Agardh to M, 4 August 1883, no. 18 is given as Dasya villosa macroura, while in his list of Henry Watts's specimens, J. Agardh to M, 4 August 1883 (in this edition as 83-08-04a), no. 18 is given as 'unknown to me, perhaps new sp. of Nitophyllum'. Griffithsia, Daysa and Nitrophyllum are all in the same Order of red algae.
(the involucrum is not that of Gr. antarctica).
68.
Polysiphonia sp. perhaps near to P. succulenta)
69.
Griffithsia elongata

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.
70
Ceramium sp. (C. isogonum?)
71.
Dasya sp. (perhaps new).
72.
Griffithsia Gunniana

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(minor)
73.
Griffithsia licmophora

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H.
74.
collect.
3/1 & 5/1 Hanovia
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Hanowia in Algaebase (accessed 13 January, 2020) but spelled Hanovia in J. Agardh (1848-1901), vol. 2, p. 5 and index, although given as Hanowia where the genus is described, p. 109.
robusta
"
17/4
Hanovia archnoidea

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75.
Hymenocladia Usnea
76.
Horea Halymenioides

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.
77.
Horea Wilsonis

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(forma)
78.
Polycoelia laciniata

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(latior)
79.
Nitophyllum Gunnianum (eximie proliferum) forma insolita
[(extraordinarily prolific) unusual form]
80
Lenormandia prolifera

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J Ag. = Rytiphlaea? Simplicifolia H.
81
Rhodymenia corallina

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auct.
82
Stenogramma interrupt. in a young state?
83
perhaps the same as no 84 collected 4/2 84.
84.
collect. 26/1 84 is
Stenogramma interruptum

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in fruit
"
collect. 4/2 perhaps the same but not in fruit.
"
collect. 5/1 is quite different perhaps sp. of
Sarcodia

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.
"
collect 28/1 84 is no 82 above.
85.
Tylotus obtusatus

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J Ag.
86.
Cryptonemia sp. (new?) (near to Cr. undulata but perhaps different sp.)
87
new Genus and sp.
Glaphyrymenia pustulosa

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J. Ag. (young)
88.
Glaphyrymenia pustulosa

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Described in J. Agardh (1873-90), part 4, p. 52, pl. 1, fig. 4. The specimen MEL 1005795 bears Wilson's collection number on the sheet.
(with capsular fruit)
89.
Glaphyrymenia pustulosa

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(with tetraspores)
90.
Asperococcus sinuosus

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91.
Pollexfenia pedicellata

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92.
Gracilaria furcellata

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93.
I suppose that the 2 specim. do not belong to the same species.
The one with immersed minute red dots of fruit is
Rhodoglossum foliiferum

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; the other in which one of the leaves has the marginal papillae found in many sp. of Gigartina is (I suppose) = no 86 of a former collection or Gigart. gigantea;
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In J. Agardh to M, 4 August 1883, Wilson's no. 86 is given as 'Gigartina sp. ad Gig. grandifidam vel G. circumcuitam var. (= Gigart. radulae forma [Harv.?]'.
The specimen being imperfect and not in fruit I dare not decide the question.
94
is
Ectoclinium dentatum

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(with caps. fruit)
95
collected 30/1 84 is
Ectoclinium dentatum

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collected 2/2 84 is
Rhodophyllis

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sp. nov. (more specimens very acceptable)
96.
Dictyurus teres

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J Ag. (=
Thuretia teres

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Harv.)
97.
Acrotylus australis

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98.
Mychodea foliosa

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J Ag. =
Gymnogongrus foliosus

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Harv.
99.
Chylocladia clavellosa

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100.
Polyopes constrictus

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J Ag.
J G Agardh
Obs The
Myriodesma pinnatifidum

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J. Ag. mscr.
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Myriodesma pinnatifidum

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was not published; see also J. Agardh to M, 4 August 1883, and J. Agardh to M, 23 August 1883 (in this edition as 83-08-23a).
according to the new specimens seems only to be a form with serrated leaves of Myriod. integrifolium.
The plant supposed to be
Spatoglossum australasicum

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Kuetz is perhaps rather a form of
Dictyota nigricans

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J Ag.