necessary items which are not available in Vercelli or Torino. 

 f^: Ifyou would please get me some local plants; my garden has besides some 

 umbellifers nothing from North America ; I would be particularly happy for examples 

 of early original species: e.g. Dionaea, Sarracenia, Nyssa, Laurus Sassafras, 

 Benzoin etc. 



2""^: I would be most gratefui ifyou could give me the exact title and price of the 

 newest North American Flora( as long as it is not an expensive display or art work) 

 and with Sullivant's dried mosses.- Is there no?? nearyou? De Notaris has 

 Sullivants fascicle; he alone has managed to get one in a friendly exchange with the 

 Englishman Mitten. 



Now I have added to the dozen two specimens of Cuscuta which were 

 included among the duplicates to 



