Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS accompanied by an offprint of Massee (1895) and an envelope showing, on front: 'ON HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE. | Miss M. Henley. | Richmond-House | Milawa | via Wangaratta. | GOVERNMENT BOTANIST, | Melbourne, 31/5/1895'. Front stamped twice: 'REGISTERED MELBOURNE | H | JE 1 | 95'; 'CHIEF SECRETARY VICTORIA | FRANK STAMP'.

31/5/95.

The last weekly mail, dear Miss Henley, brought from the Royal Garden of Kew an essay on fungs growing on insects; Mr Massee, who is the Specialist for fungs at Kew has beautifully drawn your large Cordyceps but it was first described and on my suggestion named by the Italian Professor Massalongo

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No published description by Caro Benigno Massalongo of a species honoring Henley has been found.

in honor of yourself. The print, now sent to you is the only one, I received from Kew, so I must write to Mr Massee for an other copy — if it can be spared, and if occasion meanwhile should arise, I will ask you for the loan of the copy now forwarded to you.

If you can find more specimens of the

Cordyceps Henleyana

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Massee described the species as Cordyceps Henleyae in Massee (1895), pp. 28-9, with the depiction of it to which M refers in plate 1, fig. 1. He had previously published the name without a description in Massee (1894).

I shall be grateful to have them, as with such rarities I can keep up my interchanges for the augmentation by inter changes of the vast collections brought together by me since my boyhood (since 1839). You can never send too many specimens of this cordyceps. Specimens of floating and submerged plants also much desired.