See Pringsheim's "Jahrbucher," XXXIV., page 581.

We are indebted to Sir Joseph Hooker for the reference to Burbidge's paper.) Here is a fool's notion.

I have some planted on Sphagnum.

Do any tropical lichens or mosses, or European, withstand heat, or grow on any trees in hothouse at Kew?
If so, for love of Heaven, favour my madness, and have some scraped off and sent me.
I am like a gambler, and love a wild experiment.

It gives me great pleasure to fancy that I see radicles of orchid seed penetrating the Sphagnum.