..80 Acosandria, Pentagynia, Mesembryanthemum. 
(except in M. glabrum hereunder detached) lie 
veiled in difüculties, which (thus.far at mo 
escape qeroppent and defy research. The 
will not be fettered. 
And yet the eed once had vainly hoped that the 
MiNIMA, from the tubular corollae of some of 
viated true T aps keeping open continually 
their lively flowers ; the MEGACEPHALA and 
the PERrOLIATA, &c. &c. ; might each have 
constituted a distinct genus (and they probably 
are such). But he has hitherto been so effec 
tually f. foiled i Á such insensible shades aud i mer- 
nmmunuvaet ener 
even of the same section ga Minima not. ex- 
cepted), that he has not yet been able to recon- 
eir discrepancies, He a om 
teenpieteiy despair; and, with h opes of so: 
ulterior success from the formation of the nt 
sules, ss again taken all the species into actual 
cultivation, whieh he ean procure, having com- 
Mte by collecting the Vifliculi species : but 
he soon found the remainder necessary to elicit 
their full distinetions ; to contrast their charac- 
ters, and combine them effectually; and to ad- 
- ee the scienee in the manner it deserves : 
ut -of so many ts (and severa 
- er RERUR iubdis ib happy har- 
| and due cong, «dest siis task of time. 
1 - continual ac- 
even new divi- 
aree remos eau cuj WEE LEA 
