One of the most productive districts was the neighbourhood o 
Taormina, where a little moisture still remained in the torre 
beds particularly in the valley of the Fiumare della Decima 
with the grotto ofSifone one of the sources of the river and in the. 
Letojanni valley to the north east of the town. Interesting things 
were also found on the monte Venere which rises above Taor- 
mina to the height of 2900 feet. HAE 
_ The woods at Ficuzza, a hunting lodge of the Bourbon kings 
now used by the government as a forestry department about 
30 miles to the south of Palermo and under the ridge of the 
Rocca Busambra also proved very productive. The slight el 
vation and the presence of trees caused a greater appearance © 
freshness than we observed any where else. 3 ds 
In our visit to Ficuzza we had the great advantage of the com 
pany of Signor Lojacono-Pojero, the well-known Sicilian botanist 
who most courteously directed us to his locality for Anacolia 
Webbii (Mont.) Schpr. and greatly assisted us in appreciating 
the marvellous wealth of the phanerogamic flora of this riche 
district. 
y interesting from a botanica 
ve saw notl 
which occurred up to over 7000 feet. 
An interesting locality was Macc: 
there are some eurious mounds of mud 
tted hydrogen bubbles up from’ti 
Were not very active at the time of our visit. We had hof 
he mi, oductive of interesting mosses 
Naples, but 
