THE LATE PROFESSOR REINWARDT. 21 
l am here at Sfax against my will. I had embarked everything for 
Djerba, but the wind continuing obstinately against us, I persuaded 
the captain of the vessel I had freighted, for a slight addition to the 
a price to change his course, and make sail for Sfax; but at midnight 
the wind deserted us, and the tide going down, left us high and dry 
a quarter of a league from the sea. We floated again with the tide, 
but, the north wind being against us, I and my companions determined 
to continue our route on foot; and after sleeping one night in the open 
air, and two in the Arab huts, we reached Sfax on the third day, but 
the boat did not arrive till seven days afterwards. 
From Sfax I send you forty large packets of plants, in five bales 
covered with matting, as neither boxes, nor wood to make them, are to 
be had here. On the 7th of June I shall sail for Djerba, and if the 
wind is fair, I shall reach it on the following day. The greater part of 
the vegetation will, I know, be over; I shall therefore merely walk 
through the island, and, embarking on the south side, at Bordj-el-Kan- 
tara, visit Zerziz, This expedition will, I hope, be accomplished in 
fifteen or twenty days. I shall economize my time to the utmost, in 
order to give as much as possible to the Djebel Zaghouan. 
The Silene I mentioned in my last is the S. setacea figured by Viviani. 
Another plant of Viviani which I have met with is his Vicia intermedia ; 
but his figure and description are both so incomplete, that I doubt 
whether he ever saw the entire plant, as he says nothing of its under- 
ground portion, in which the fructification—/ypogea, as in the Vicia 
amphicarpa—is magnificently developed. The plant is as strong and as 
fully developed underground as above. Since I sent off my collections, 
I have already seven more large packets ready, and this plant will be 
found in the forty-second. 
The weather has been very mild as yet, and my health is excellent. — 
We have had but one day of scirocco; the rest of the time the wind 
| has been in the north, with the exception of three or four days each - 
1 mo month of east wind, which here brings with it rain. 
The late Professor C. G. C. REINWARDT, and his LIBRARY. En 
[We make the following extract from a letter Jately; communicated to * 
us from Hollaud.] = 
Dr. and Professor Reinwardt was, from his youth, destined to the - 
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