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the work of the corolla being accomplished. Our purple 

 seaside species shows this character very markedly. This 

 plant is equally common on the shores of South-eastern 

 Australia and of Tasmania. 



Mtsembryanthtmum attstrale. 



Another widely-spread littoral plant is the succulent 

 Mesembryanthemum austrule, called Pigs-face in Australia, 

 but often better known as the Fig-marigold. Linnaeus 

 must have been somewhat hard put to it when devising 

 his system of binomial nomenclature to invent names for 

 all the plants which he described. This genus he named 

 c 



