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shops and gardens; and that "in large Afri- 
can and less-icy kind, so common on the Con- 
tinent, and with our ald authors, has been lost 
to England for nearly half a century, and but 
recently regained. ME these plants are two 
-species is also apparent, e À have not yet 
an opportunity of examining the flowers of the 
African kind, and drew up the above descrip- 
tion from a young plaut only. 
The ** distinct species of Ice Plant" slightly 
mentioned in ded succ. at the close of the 
account of the present species, was, I have no 
doubt, the true M. devtüitum from Africa. 
M. (Small ice-plant) foliis ovatis petiolatis, B. sessiliffo- 
ore albó, papuloso-nitentibus, precipue sub- rum. 
tus ; summis lanceolatis. subalternis ; floribus 16. 
mee pecu tis parvis sessilibus, radice sub- . 
T C. B. S. ubi legit Dom. Buighel in - 
: eujus : bir vigebat A.D.1818.-- G.H. 
An varietas - sessilidori? Flores albi, nee lutei 
—Trami suberecto-decumberites, DocPuPORE RA ra- 
mulis vix PUE tibus, et iac eh quasi. decu 
beuaada n in que a M. sessi 
'floro Hort. kew. ed. 1. v.2. p. 293, forte dia: 
crepat. 
M. (Lurid) foliis oblongis obtusis purpuraseenti- relara- 
glaucis luridis canaliculatis, subpunctato-papn- um. 
losis; costatim carinatis; caulibus ramosis te- li. 
retibus decumbentibus. 
M. relaxatum. Willd. enum. p. 36. 
