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chiefly cherries, very large and of excellent flavor, strawberries, 

 both wild and cultivated, apricots, a few oranges, and a native 

 fruit resembling a plum in size and color, but containing several 

 large seeds. A little later in the season, prickly pears, grown on 

 the old lava beds of Vesuvius, are sold on the streets of Naples. 

 From Florence I went to Trient, in the Tyrol, to study the 

 splendid private herbarium of Abbe G. Bresadola. This noted 

 mycologist was born and educated in the Tyrol, and most of his 

 work has been done in the vicinity of Trient. The mountains 

 about Trient, however, are steep and the excursions for specimens 

 necessarily long and laborious ; so he has been accustomed for. 

 the last five years or more to go up to Mendel Pass in the month; 

 of August for the rich and very accessible collections to bei 

 made there. It was on the Mendel that I first made his acquain-! 



The remainder of the year he lives simply in a small house, 

 adjoining the famous old cathedral of Trient, where he conducts 

 the usual daily services of the cathedral and devotes what time 

 he can spare from his confining religious duties to the study of 

 mycology. 



Bresadola is a great linguist, having learned Italian, French and 

 German in childhood and acquired Greek and Latin at school. He 

 reads English easily and once attempted to learn to speak it, but 

 was staggered by the pronunciation. Like Chaucer's priest, he has 

 spent much on books and is well versed in the recent literature 

 of mycology, receiving many separates from other workers and 

 buying many that are not given him. His own publications 

 have been in demand, but the lithographic plates have been 

 very costly. For a man of his years — he will be sixty next 

 February — he is wonderfully well preserved. Without using 

 glasses, he sees remarkably well, and his memory is some- 

 thing extraordinary. I spent a very pleasant week studying 

 with him the polypores in his herbarium. Many type speci- 

 mens were examined, sent by the older mycologists, and many 

 others were found to be authentically determined by comparison 

 with material borrowed from other herbaria. His collection 



