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be increased in the same manner as above, and 

 also by tlieir creeping stems, which should be 

 cut on and planted out in fresh heds, allowing 

 at least a' foot distance every way. The young 

 shoots planted in the spring in the same way 

 also lake root like the other sons. 



The proper time for this work is in the early 

 autumn, that the plants may he well routed be- 

 fore w inter. 



In this was the plants are much stronger and 

 produce larger crops than when planted out in 

 the spring. When the roots remain so elose 

 as is generally the case, they arc apt to rot in 

 the winter season. They succeed best in a 

 moist strong soil. 



Sonic of the species and varieties may be in- 

 troduced in the horders and other puts of plea- 

 sure-grounds, for ornament and variety. 



MESEMBRYANTHEMUM^a genus con- 

 taining plants of the succulent flowery exotic 

 kinds. 



It belongs to the elass and order Tcosandria 

 Pentagynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Succulent ec. 



The characters are: that the eal\x is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, five-cleft, superior, acute, 

 spreading] permanent: the corolla is one-petal- 

 led: petals lanceolate-linear, very numerous, in 

 several rows, a little longer than the calyx, 

 slightly united at the claws into one: the sta- 

 mina have numerous capillary filaments, the 

 length of the ealvx : anthers incumbent : the 

 pistillum is an inferior germ, with five blunt 

 angles : styles commonly five, awl-shaped, up- 

 right, and then bent hack: stigmas simple: the 

 pcricarpium is a fleshv capsule, roundish, the 

 navel marked with rays ; the cells correspond- 

 ing with the styles in number: the seeds very 

 niauy and roundish. 



The species cultivated are : 1 . M. crystallinum, 

 Diamond Pig Marigold, or Ice Plant ; 2. M. 

 pinnatijidum, Pinnated Pig Marigold; 3. M. 

 Tripolium, Plane-leaved Pig Marigold ; 4. M. 

 caducum, Small-flowered Fig Mangold ; 5. J/. 

 papillosum, Angular-stalked Pig Marigold : C>. 

 M. gen iatli /lorn m, Jointed Fig Mangold ; ' . 

 M. nocliflorum, Night-flowering Pig Marigold; 

 8. M. splendens, Shining Pig Marigold ; o. 

 M. umlellatum, LJmbelled Fig Marigold; lo. 

 M. expansion, Houseleek-leaved Fig Marigold; 

 II. At, calamtforme, Quill-leaved Pig Mari- 



fold ; 12. M. bellidiflorum, Daisy-lowered 

 'ig Marigold; 13. M. dclloides, Delta-leaved 

 Pig Marigold ; l t. M. harbatum, Bearded Pig 

 Marigold; i>. M, h'tspidum, Bristly Fig Mari- 

 gold; \G. M. villosum, Hairy-stalked Fig Ma- 

 rigold ; 17. M. scalnun, Rugged Pig Mari- 

 gold; is. M. replant, Creeping Pig Mari- 

 Vol. II. 



gold ; 19. M. uncinalum, I look-leaved Fig 

 Marigold ; --'0. .1/. spinosum, '1 borny I 

 rigold; 91. M. tuberosum, Tuberous-ro 

 Marigold; 22. M. ienuifbl'mm, Slender-leaved 

 Fig Mangold; 23. M. stipulaccum, Upright- 

 shrubby Pig Marigold 3 24. M. ■ «, 

 Thick-leaved Fig Marigold 3 25. M. Jalcatu/m, 

 Sickle-leaved Fig Marigold ; 26. M. glomera- 

 tum, Clustered Fig Marigold; 27. M, bicolo- 

 rum, Two-coloured 1 'ig Marigold; 28. M. 

 serratum, Serrate-leaved" Pig Marigold; 29. 

 M. micatis, Glittering Fig Mangold; '-in. M. 

 veruciilatum, Spit-leaved Fig Marigold; 31. 

 J\l. glaucum, Glaucous-leaved Fig Marigold j 



32. M. cornictdalum, Homed Fig Marigold; 



33. M. ringens, Ringent Pig Marigold; ;t. 

 M. daiabriforme, Hatchet-leaved Fig Marigold 3 



35. M. diffbrme, Various-leaved Fig Mangold ; 



36. M. albidum, White Fig Marigold; 37. 

 M. luiguiforme, Tongue-leaved Fig Marigold j 

 3s. M. pugionif'orme, Dagger-leaved Pig Mari- 

 gold ; 39. M, tortuosum, Twisted-leaved Pig 

 Marigold; 40. \I. (marginatum, Notch-flow- 

 ered Fig Mangold; -11. M. Iracteatum, Brac- 

 teated Pig Marigold. 



There are other species that may he culti- 

 vated. 



The first is an annual plant, distinguished by 

 its leaves and stalks being closely covered with 

 pellucid pimple; full of moisture, which when 

 the sun shines on them reflect the light, and 

 appear like small bubbles of ice, whence it 

 is called the Ice Plant : others name it the 

 Diamond Plant, or Diamond Ficoides. The 

 stem has opposite and alternate cylindrical 

 branches, which, when luxuriant, trail upon the 

 ground, and arc from one to two feet Ions;. The 

 first four or six leaves are opposite, each pair 

 crossing the other, very lax and succulent, waved, 

 blunt, attenuated or wedge-shaped at the base, 

 and connate, rather keeied underneath, especi- 

 ally at the base, with a slight corresponding 

 channel along the centre of the upper surface, 

 which is covered with less and duller pimpled 

 than any other part of the plant: the margin is 

 regularly edged, with globular papula: or pim- 

 ples, which are less than those on the stems ; 

 the upper leaves aie alternate, growing lc?j and 

 less, nearly sessile, small : the peduncles ex- 

 tremely short or none, alternate, from the axill 

 of the upper leaves : the segments of the calyx 

 unequal, three of them large and leafy, beset 

 with pilescent pimples, and acuti ly pointed ; 1 

 two inner much smaller, frequently coloured 

 with a purplish tinge, acute at the punts ; the 

 petals very narrow, blush-coloured <n\\\\ 

 whitish within, sometimes entirely white. It is 

 a native of Greece, ilowcring in Jul) and Augu.i . 



