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ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 86.02.18
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Chylocladia Ramsayana
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Fauchea nitophylloides
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Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1886-02-18. 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/1880-9/1886/86-02-18-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026
18/2/86.
It will be encouraging to you, dear Mr Ramsay, when I tell you, that the Grand Master
of Algologists, Professor Agardh found a new species of Chylocladia among your seaweeds,
and described it as Ch. Ramsayana in the Åreskrift. Besides you discovered a new Fauchea,
to which he gave the name F. nitophylloides.
Much remains yet to be done for the Algology of N.SW.
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Both new species were described in Agardh (1873-90), part 4, pp. 46 and 39 respectively
(see the bibliographical comment in n. 2, T. Ware to M, 12 June 1874 (in this edition
as 74-06-12a).
If you have even only a few of the Parrots ready,
kindly send them over, and let me know your outlay, so that I may refund it at once
by a P.O. Order.
2
See M to E. Ramsay, 26 March 1885, and M to E. Ramsay, 18 September 1885.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.