and in having a longer and more glaucous foliage, although 
the flowers are not larger than here. 
We submit our opinion entirely to Mr. Haworth in re- 
gard to the above synonymy, or else we should not have 
hesitated to adopt the figure in the ** Hortus Elthamensis" 
(tab. 210), usually adduced to this plant. 
The drawing was taken two years ago at the nursery of 
Messrs. Whitley and Co. King's Road, Fulham. 
Elongatum, capitatum, and pugioniforme are extremely 
near akin, and with two others already known, constitute so 
distinet a group in Mr. Haworth's view, that they are pro- 
bably destined to be embodied under a new generic name in 
some future production of the pen of that indefatigable ob- 
server of succulent plants. As the species do not in this 
section always produce suckers or shoots, the mode by wbich 
these plants survive, our chief reliance for their continuation 
is upon seed; which they produce freely, when placed out 
of doors from May to September. 
Stem about a foot or rather more in length, procum- 
bent owing to the weight of the foliage. Leaves collected 
at the summit of the stem, longest about six inches 
in length, subulate, equilaterally triangular, inclining to 
glaucous, without any papillary efflorescence; branches pro- 
cumbent. Peduncles on the branches, forming a kind of 
panicle, about four inches long, slightly roughened. Flowers 
yellow, expanding in the forenoon. Calyx large; segments 
nearly equal, caudately tapered. Corolla 3 inches over; 
petals numerous in many rows, very narrow, ciliated below 
the middle. Filaments numerous, innermost (abortive sta- 
mens) capillary, connivent, standing wide of the styles. 
Germen hemispherical, more depressed than in the other 
immediately allied species. Styles 16, insulated from the 
stamens, short, setaccous, upright, yellow. 
