Tenore speaks of it as abounding at the foot of Vesuvius, 

 near Ottojano, Boscotrecase, Mauro, Mortelle, Portici, and 

 elsewhere, always in very dry meadows. 



Our drawing was made in April 1827, in the Garden of 

 the Horticultural Society, where it had been received from 

 Signor Mauri, in the same year 



J • Li* 



