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mesembryanthemum pomeridlanum. great 

 Yellow-Flowered Fig-Marigold. 



Clafs and Order. 



ICOSANDRIA PeNTACYNIA. 



Generic Char abler. 



Cat. 5-fidus. Petala numerofa linearia. Cap/, carnofa, infera, 

 polyfperma. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



MESEMBRYANTHEMUM pomeridianum ; foliis planiuf- 



culis lato-lanceolatis laevibus 

 fubciliatis diftin&is, caule pe- 

 dunculis germinibufque hirds. 

 Sp. PI. 698. Jacquin Icon. rar. 

 v. 2. 489. Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. 

 194. Martin Miller's Dili. n. 

 66. Linn. Dec. 1. tab. 13. 



MESEMBRYANTHEMUM glabrutn s And. 57. an hujus 



varietas nana ? 



This is certainly the Mesembryanthemum pomeridianum 

 of Linn/eus, both accurately defcribed and figured by the 

 younger Linnaus. The Mesembryanthemum helianthoidcs 

 of the Kew Catalogue we mould be tempted to put down as a 

 mere variety of this ; but obferving that both forts were intro- 

 duced by Mr. Mass on from the Cape the fame year, we a f e 

 unwilling to fuppofe that, in fo accurate a work, two fpecieS 

 mould be made of one when both could be compared together. 



It has ulually twelve ftigmas and as many cells in the cap- 

 fule ; the peduncles and bafe of the calyx are always hairy ; 

 the fegments of the calyx irregular, three of them flat and 

 u'fually longer than the petals, and two rounded in the middle 

 with membranaceous appendages at the bale. 



It is a tender annual ; but if raifed in a hot bed in April or 

 May, the young plants may be fet out in the open border by 

 the middle of June, where they will thrive much better than 

 when confined in a pot. They produce a great number 01 

 flowers, which when expanded, as they always are in the 

 afternoon if the fun fhine, are very fhewy ; and as they feed 

 freely, they are eafily propagated. 



Our figure was taken in the Botanic Garden at Brompton 

 early in July laft. — Introduced to the Royal Garden at K.e^> 

 by Mr. Masson, 1774. Ait. Kew. 



