Lcosandria P. entag. Mesembryanthemum. 987 
Inter [éetpregoe et sequentem, at omnino 
grac 
M. (Umbc!'d) foliis subglaneis scabrido- punc- umbella- 
tatis remotis binncialibus gracilibus apicibus tum. 
aero dh vaginis apice tumidis: corollisalbis. 172. 
—JM. umblellatum. .JWilld. us pof p. 1038. 
Ge UA kew. ed. 2. v. 3. p. bap in 
misc. nat. 97.— Mill. dict pu 
M. rifiecen. Pra allis abellalis ' Dill 
elth. 297. t. 9 . 966.— Bradl. succ. dec. 5. 
t. 44, vods p descriptione, que? omnino 
pertinet ad Othonnam tenuissimam Lin 
Oss. This " xs last of the Perfoliate. shrubby 
species. y the whole of them are per- 
haps the ns plants of the Genus, and 
some of them I have known survive a winter 
on uncovered rock-work. An conceive . 
rubbish a foot thick, sloping from the base of 
à south wall, planted close to the bricks, and 
defended in the TüoH severe weather with a 
little loose straw. Those which survived 
would ped iem flowers than if nursed up 
in a Greenhoa 
ice Miller, spedking of the more hardy spe- 
of this genus, say 
E^ The other shrubby kde may be sheltered in - 
winter under a common frame, where, if they 
are protected from frost and wet, it is all they 
require ; for the hardier these are treated, the 
quantity of flowers they wiil produce : : 
arfd some of the sorts are so hardy, as to live 
road when placed close to a. good aspecte 
wall, and in a poor dry soil; so that where 
there is room to Vspüse them against a wall, 
