Tenore speaks of it as abounding at the foot of Vesuvius, 
near Ottojano, Boscotrecase, Mauro, Mortelle, Portici, and 
elsewhere, always in very dry meadows. 
Our drawing was made in April 1827, in the Garden of 
the Horticultural Society, where it had been received from 
Signor Mauri, in the same year 
de. Ibe, 
