will lose all its foliage when the heart comes back in a few days. Its fruits are so 

 shrunken as ifboiling water had been poured over them. We certainly were lucky that 

 the thermal siphon had been ready for a few days and thus could be used; in this way 

 we were able to save all bat a few of the glass house plants. What a messl 



I am happy to know that you found material foryour research in what we sent. It 

 is probably left-overs from Morls' time.. 



I appreciate your opinion about Taxodium distichum and shall look for relatives. 



Ascherson's Wish to have a reprint of Plate 191 from Cupani's Semphyd 

 Siciliana cannot be satisfied in Neapel (Napoli) because there is only one copy 

 complete with plates in existence and that one Stands in Sicily . That one has many 

 times been copied by Desquate in painting and I have often talked about it The Sicilian 

 botanists will well give up one day and let it be copied but they have not gotten around 

 to it yet. His excellence General v. Gansenenge carries with him Instructions to do so. 



