Contents
Foreword 5
Introduction 6
Acknowledgements 6
Mammon and Enthusiasm, Entwined; A Little History 7
Coles to Newcastle, and Other Colonialists 10
Whittling Down Data 10
Lithops at Home 11
Map Rap 18
A Type Locality Map 20
Hide and Seek 22
Dry as a Stone 23
After Many a Summer … 23
Collection, Conservation, and Discovery 26
The Bad Seed? 26
Colour Visions and Thoroughbreds 27
Growing Lithops 28
Light in August 31
Truth in Packaging 31
Pollination, Patience, and the Fuller Fuller Brush-Man33
Seed-Raising and Racing 34
Ease and Disease 35
Transmantled Beauties 36
Lithops and Their Lineage 37
Taxing Taxonomy, or, Order in the Hort 38
Descriptions and Proscriptions 42
A Note on the Photographs 45
Terms and Endearments 45
Author (Author) 47
The Species 48
Appendix 1 - Mysteries and Fantasies of the Lithosphere 115
Appendix 2 - Agony Column, or, Ask Mabel 116
Appendix 3 - The Brief Case of L. halenbergensis Tischer 118
Appendix 4.1 - A Bare Bones Species List 119
Appendix 4.2 - A Pruned Synonymy 120
Appendix 4.3 - A Chronology 123
Appendix 5 - N.E. Brown´s Lihops Collection 125
Appendix 6 - Dr. Geyer´s 1951 lecture 128
Appendix 7 - Notes on Two New Cultivars 132
Appendix 8 - Seed Size in Lithops 133
Appendix 9 - A Key to Lithops by Jonathan Y. Clark 135
Bibliography and References 141
Index 143
Sources of Lithops 147
Happily Ever Afterword 148
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