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« I know your gallantry and your love of Italy and there- 
« fore I told Madame Mazzanti-Fiorini that her offerings and 
« her requests would reach a sure and friendly haven. She 
« is preparing a Flora of the ancient Monuments in Italian 1 
« a work befelting both her antiquarian and scientific taste, 
« for she is I assure you a most accomplished as veil as a 
« most amiable lady. 
« We herborize often together, indeed we are going onh 
« this afternoon but she cannot go far as she is in atten- 
« dance upon her sick father. Though I am a poor collector 
« of mosses yet I troght her down from the Latian hills 
«12 Mosses and 2 Jungermanniae in fructification. Nothing 
« new of course tho’ I have some hopes of finding novelties 
« in the Sabine mountains to which I have bound. 
« Madame Fiorini has been extremely gratified by the kind 
« and generous offer of captain Durieu 2 to send her Alge- 
« rian mosses she beg me to present her best acknowledge- 
« ments and she will receive them as well as lichens with 
« which she is now occupied with the greatest gratitude. In 
« return she would have much pleasure in sending him the 
« types of her Bryologia Romana. 
« Excuse me if I do not write more at present, but my 
« time is exceedingly taken up write letters to England, 
« adios. 
« Always, my dear friend 
« most truly et afif. tely 
« P. B. Webb. » 
(Ménte a dr esse). 
1 Cf. Fiorini-Mazzanti, Flottila del Colosseo in Atti Accademia 
Muovi Lincei, XXYIII-XXXI (1875-1878). 
2 Durieu de Maisonneuve, capitaine d’infanterie, membre de la 
Commission d’exploration scientifique de l’Algérie et, en dernier lieu, 
directeur du Jardin botanique de Bordeaux olì il est mort le 20 Fé- 
vrier 1878 (Cf. Cossox, Compend. FI. All., I, 37 et Bull. Soc. bot. 
Fr., XXV, 43). 
