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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM tigrinum. 
Tiger-chap Fig- Marygold. 
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ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Fıcomer. Jussieu gen. 315. Div. IT. Germen inferum. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM. Cal. superus 5-fidus persistens, Pet. 
numerosa serie multiplici, linearia basi levitér connata. Styli 5, rarids 4 
aut 10. Caps. carnosa umbilicata umbilico radiis notato, multilocularis 
loculis numero stylorum. Sufrutices aut herbae; folia opposita aut rarids 
alterna, incrassata, formá plurimüm varia; flores solitarii, axillares aut extrà 
azillares аш sapiüs terminales; fructus interdüm ficiformis. Juss. 1. c. 817. 
Div, II. Subacaulia, caulibus nullis vel brevissimis, radice perenni. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 8. 213. 
M. tigrinum acaule, foliis glaucescentibus albo-maculatis rarids tubercu- 
latis: marginibus profundé ciliatis. Haworth misc. nat. 81. 
Mesembryanthemum tigrinum. Haworth mesemb. 164. Ejusd. succ. 216. 
Willd. sp. pl. 2. 1029. Thompson's bot. displ. 9. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 8. 
218. 
Plantula acaulis, pinguissima, perennis. Folia radicalia, suboctona?, 
decussato-congesta, patentia, cymbiformi-ovata, glauca, pruinosa, maculis 
parvis albis irregularibus picta, subuncialia, latitudine 3 uncia, crassitudine 
Jere $ uncia, sublüs convexa, superna versus pror cymbuli ad instar attenu- 
ata, suprà plana, summis lateribus extern sub dentibus à sulcis vel canaliculis 
obsoletioribus transvers? rugata, interno margine dentato-ciliata dentibus albis 
cartilagineis setaceo-aristatis, aristis tenuilate ferà үш serici ad lentem villosis, 
ипо тета introrsüm inclinantibus. Flos centralis, sessilis, magnus, luteus, 
froceo-emarcescens, non nisi post meridiem expandens, 
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Of the 211 species of this genus enumerated by Мг. На- 
worth, all are indigenous of the Cape of Good Hope, except 
about five orsix. Only one species has a station in Europe, 
and that at an extreme part, viz. the shores of Naples. Two 
or three belong to the Levant, one of which is the well- 
known Ice-Plant, found near Athens. Not a single Ame- 
rican species has been observed. The name of Fig-Mary- 
gold, by which these plants are known in our gardens, has 
been suggested by a twofold resemblance, on one hand by 
that of the fruit to the form of a fig, and on the other by 
that of the flower to the common Marygold, like which it 
shuts itself up in cloudy weather. The genus forms the 
principal group in the gardener's tribe of succulent plants. 
The present diminutive species was introduced in 1790 
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