Contents:
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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

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-Man ..........  33

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
  Lithops Collection ............... 125

Appendix 6 - Dr. Geyer's 1951
  lecture .......................... 128

Appendix 7 - Notes on Two New
  Cultivars ........................ 132

Appendix 8 - Seed Size in Lithops
  by Jonathan Y. Clark ............. 135

Bibliography and References ........ 141

Index .............................. 143

Sources of Lithops ................. 147

Happily Ever Afterword ............. 148