Icosandria Pentag. Mesembryanthemum. 
v. 3 
misc. mat. p. 35.—Hort. kew. ed. 9. v. 3. 
p. 920.— M. heterophyllum. | Bot. rep. v. 8. 
540? 3 
HasBiTAT C. B. S. :G. H. X. 
Fron&T Aug.—Oct. A.M. à 
IxTROD. 1792. * 
Oss. "The second edition of Hortus Kewersis 
cites the above figure: of Bot. repos. (de- 
scribed I believe by the late Mr...Geo. Jack- 
son) for this species, but it rather belongs to 
the last, and. has nothing to do with my M. 
Bclerctiylhus ; Wbich indeed is not even 
binted at by the writer, lest bis pirated ac- 
count from my Miscellanea (p. 101, &c.), of 
ni i he pe capsules 
lesembryanthema, and the consequent 
providential distribution of their seeds, should 
beexposed. This is like Mr. J.'s asking and 
obtaining the favour of my telling him where 
the rare Zrostis liltoralis grew wild, (at a 
time when I was the only person who knew a 
habitat for it;) and soon after giving it to 
Kew garden, (where it was shown me for a 
rarily,) as a discovery of his own ; and also 
to Sowerby , who figured it in English Botany, 
as a discovery of Mr. J.'s; notwithstanding Í 
had given specimens, and even a written new 
specific character of it to Sowerby himself, 
above a year before! Not so Mr. Knapp, 
who, wanting it for his large work on British: 
 Grasses, also applied to me for its of 
rowth; where he found it; and 
comingly acknowledged who enabled him to 
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