Jeosandria. Pentag. Mesembryanthemum. 
- eylindricis papulosis mollibus, caule peduncu- 
lis calycibusque hispidis..— Decand.. pl. grass. 
; Àn satis diversa a sequente? (M. striatum) 
i D." 
sed flores non stria 
Ons. The M. ijerciiatenm of Mill. dict. ed. 8. 
x 
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£3 
E died rac: 
»9d !chipidis, ciu 
echina- T 
much cultivated amongst us as the present 
species, at the present time ; for | am credibly 
informed by a Nurseryman, that a person in 
the néhbourbé od ot Hammersmith grows 
and sells annually to the trade, and isis 
about seven thousand pots of it, He grow 
them in frames, and protects them from bost 
with litter, nearly in. manner recommended 
under e ene of .M. micans, above (but 
. with richer soil and less ed: which gives 
them a dh dense growth, and covers them 
with their beautiful fgg and, from ace, 
mann ner, Ati would become at least éilally 
lucrative, and still more shewy aud interesting. 
hese plants, if accompanied by rhe other 
more. brilliant kinds, are capable of exhibiiing 
o greater and more vüried bla aze of floral be. 
expanded at one time than almost any. ge- 
"mus i existence 
o iei: plus minusve 
bus seepius nudis. 
"foliis oblog 0-0vàtis sübtrique- 
tris, laciniis calycinis val Angqualibus n 
- pidis longitiidine NT heri echinat 
