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PLATE LVI. 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM GLABRUM. 
Smooth-leaved annual Fig Marygold. 
CLASS XL. ORDER _ IV. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. ‘Twenty Chives. Five Pointals. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Catyx. Perianthium monophyllum, femiquin- EmpaLement. Cup one leaf, cut nearly half 
quefidum, fuperum, patens, perfiftens. way down into five divifions, above, {pread- 
ing, and remaining. 
~ Corotra. Monopetala; petala lanceolato-line- Biossom. One petal; petals linearly lance- 
aria, numerofiffima, ferie multiplici nata, fhaped, very numerous, rifing in a number 
calyce longiora, unguibus leviter connatis of rows, longer than the cup, flightly joined 
in unum. together by their claws. 
Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, capillaria, longi- Curves. Threads numerous, hair-like, the 
tudine calycis. Antherz incumbentes. length of the cup. Tips laying on the 
threads. 
Pistittum. Germen inferum, angulis quinque, Pointat, Seed-bud beneath, with five obtufe 
obtufis. Styli quinque fepius, fubulati, angles. Shafts moftly five, awl-fhaped, up- 
o-reflexi. Stigmata fimplicia. right, and a little bent outwards. Summits 
fimple. 
Pericarrium. Capfula carnofa, fubrotunda, Srep-vesset. A flefhy capfule, nearly round, 
oculamentis numero ftylorum refpondenti- the cells anfwering to the number of the 
: us. chives. - 
Semina plurima, fubrotunda. SEEDs many, nearly round. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. = 
meeerventbooan foliis amplexicaulibus, gla. Fig Marygold with leaves embracing the ftem, 
imis, fpat coeie wpsiags g very fmooth, and f{patula-fhaped; the foot- 
foliorum; calycibus hemifphericis; corollis ftalks the length of the leaves; cups hemi- 
luteis. fpherical; bloffoms yellow. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Seed-bud; the Bloffom, Cup and Chives, cut off, the Pointals remaining. 
‘2. The fame, with the Cup and Chives. 
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As the extreme brilliancy of this plant cannot be done juftice to in painting, we muft reft fatisfied 
with having done our bett; every perfon in the leaft acquainted with the art, muft know, that in 
— thining colour exifting in nature cannot be retained in a drawing. This fpecies is annual, 
and according to the Kew Catalogue, was introduced to the royal gardens by Mr. F. Maffon in the 
year 1787. The feeds fhould be fown on a hotbed in the month of February, and by the end of 
Auguft | : : : 
_~ - plants will flower, and continue to bloffom till the end of Oober; never failings perfect 
