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Mesembryanthemum testiculare (/3.) 

 Yellow-flowered, round-leaved, Fig- 

 Marigold. 



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ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Generic Characler. 

 * 

 Cal 5-fklus. Petahi numerofa lincaria, bafi cohasrentia. Cap/. 

 carnofa, infera, polyfperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



MESEMBRYANTHEMUM tejlicidare s foliis albis fubovatis, 



fubtus convexis fupra planis, flore feflili. Haworth Succul. 



p. 205. 

 {*.) corolla (alba?) foliis quatuor latioribus patentibus. Haw. I. c. 

 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM tejliculare ; foliis quatuor decuf- 



fatis fupra planis- Hort. Kew. ed. 1. vol. 2. p. 181. ed. alt. 



v. 3. p. 214. Hatvortb. Mifcel. p. 24. Willd. Sp. PI. 2. 



p> 1026. 

 (3.) corolla lutca, foliis minoribus (faepe fex) ereclioribus an- 



guftioribus. 

 (y.) corolla lutea, foliis quatuor longioribus ereclioribus. Htto. 



I.e. 

 (£) corolla rubicunda, foliis quatuor longioribus ereclioribus. 



Hazv. /. c. Jacq. Frag. p. 20. 73. /. a-f- 2. 



As in this genus the colour of the flowers is not very apt to 

 v ary, it is doubtful whether the above varieties may not in 

 reality be diftincl fpecies. With refpecl to the firft, however, it 

 does not appear from what authority the corolla was fet down 

 as white in the firft edition of A 1 ton's Hortus Kewenfis, and 

 thence copied into other works, as it feems not to have flowered 



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