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MESEMBRYANTHEMUM INCLAUDENS, 
NEVER-CLOSING Fic MARIGOLD, 
See ele te ede debi de ek ada 
Clafs and Order. 
IcosANDRIA PENTAGYNIAs 
Generic Charafer. 
Cal. 5-fidus. Pefala numetofa, linearia, bafi coherentia. Cap/- 
carnofa, infera, poly{perma. 
Specific Charatter and Synonyms, 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM iznclandens ; foliis dolabriformibus 
acie crenulata, corollis femper apertis: petalis interioribus 
teretibus abbreviatis. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM inclaudens ; foliis triquetris fub- 
deltoidibus levibus perviridibus, carina gibbola, corollis 
inclaudentibus, petalis interioribus valde abbreviatis im- 
bricatifque. Haworth Syn, Succul. p. 295. Idem in Bot. 
Repy. 388. eee : ce 
sat. 
This‘is one of the moft defirable fpecies of this numer- 
ous genus, both on account of the brilliancy of its flowers 
and becaufe they remain fully expanded, night and day. 
Flowering branches when cut off will continue unchanged for 
days together ; fo that they may be worn in the hair or bofoms, 
without danger of drooping from the heat of the ball-room 5 
but they are without fcent. “There are feveral other fpecies which 
have their bloffoms always expanded, all of which, Mr. 
Haworrn remarks, are well adapted to the above purpofe ; 
_and if fragrance be an objeét, the addition of fome of the 
night-flowering Tpecies will {upply that alfo, ae 
