Thomas E. Eichhorst wrote, "Does anyone know the history or have any knowledge of Ficus caloosahatchiensis (Smith) from east Honduras? It is apparently listed in Tom Rice's price guide but is not a species with which I am familiar. Could it be a fossil?" Good guess, Tom. "Caloosahatchiensis" means "from Caloosahatchee". The Caloosahatchee Formation is (more or less) that sequence of Pliocene-Pleistocene sandy shell beds that everyone raves over in Sarasota--and on the Caloosahatchee River--in southern Florida. I say "more or less" because the stratigraphic nomenclature has been in flux for some years, and frankly I haven't followed the arguments. But it doesn't matter, because that's probably what it meant when the species was named. Incidentally, I read somewhere that it's usually a good idea to keep a Latin name down to 6 syllables or fewer. The wonderful name "caloosahatchiensis" pushes the envelope with 7 syllables, but its syllables are brief and easily pronounced. Andrew K. Rindsberg Geological Survey of Alabama