Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M108b, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 86.00.00a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Otto Nordstedt to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1886 [86.00.00a]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-00-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

1
Annotated by M: 'Specimens named'.
Von A Watts
2
H. Watts? Collections of specimens in the list are in MEL with H. Watts listed as collector, for example Ulothrix zonata, MEL 504431, collecting number 134.
1886.
3
All entries except 142 are ticked in front of the number.
115
Oedogonium steril, unbestimmbar
[ Oedogonium sterile, undeterminable]
4
Translations are below the entries, enclosed in brackets.
117
Ktz.
122
124
125
sterilis und Oedogonium ad undulatum, warscheinlich neu. Desmids
[Sterile and Oedogonium towards undulatum, probably new.]
126
Ulothrix zonata;
128
Oedogonium ad cyathigerum [f.] nov. sp.
[Oedogonium towards cyathigerum. perhaps new species.]
129
Oed. nov. spec. ad undulatum
[Oed. new species towards undulatum]
130
et , vielleicht bestimmbar
[ and , perhaps determinable]
131
unbestimmbar
[ undeterminable]
132
Oedogonium (bestimmbar)
[Oedogonium (determinable)]
134
Ulothrix zonata
135
Ulothrix
136
137
d.
5
ditto?
et
6
Microthamnion?
138
(ad lineata?) unbestimmbar
[ (towards lineata?
7
This combination not found, but there is a lineata and a linearis (AlgaeBase, accessed 15 January 2021).
) undeterminable]
139
Oedogonium sterile
[Oedogonium sterile]
140
Ulothrix et
141
Oedog. sterile ac (parce)
[sterile Oedog. and (sparingly)]
142
Oedogonium (bestimmbar)
[Oedogonium (determinable)]
143
Oedogonium ad bathmidosporum Nordt. (vielleicht nov. spec.)
[perhaps new species]
; sp.
102
Oedogonium (bestimmbar)
Von Ch. Flahault bestimmt
[Oedogonium (determinable)
Determined by Ch. Flahault]
106
Born. et Flah. (= Ag.)
127
Vauch.
121 et 133
Pour les Nostocacées, je vous recommande donc, toutes le fois que c'est possible, les echantillons secs sur papier.
[For the I thus recommend, whenever possible, dry specimens on paper.]
Otto Nordstedt