PLATE CCI. 
AIZOON Pe ae ENS E. 
Purflane-leaved Aizoon. 
CLASS XII. 
ICOSANDRIA PENTAGYNI4A. Twenty Chives. 
ORDER Iv. 
Five Pointals. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- 
rtitam ; laciniis lanceolatis, perfiftentibus. 
CoroLia nulla a. 
Stamina. Filamenta plurima, capillaria, finui 
calycis per phalanges in ferta. Anthere 
-_ ices. 
SPECIFIC 
Aizoon foliis cag ary floribus folita- 
riis, fubfeffilibus, axillaribus 
EMPALEMENT. Cup oj e leaf, ‘ee eH feg- 
ments istics tuabed, remainin 
BLossom pone 
-'Threa 
-bud _five-fi — above. 
five, fimple. Summits fimple. 
SEED-vEssEL. Capfule bellied dented, five-fided, 
five-celled, five-valyed 
SeEeps many, roundith, 
Shafts 
CHARACTER. 
Aizoon with leaves between _wedgeand egg-fhaped; 
flowers folitary, growing almoft _— to the 
ftem from the infertion of the leay 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Empalement thewn ng the infide. 
utfide. 
2. The fame _— from the 
3. A Chive m 
4. The Pointale eral fize. 
5. The fame, magnified. 
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Tuts plant is herbaceous, and is found near the fea coaft, in moft parts of the world, within the 
t has a chara¢ter common to man 
extend from t 
inta 
Iflands,) Linnzus took up the plant, faid to ae bu 
different parts ; as ASgypt, 
‘Seeds recei 
i. Kenfington Gore; fince whic h time 
= cuttings, made chew in the year, and putin 
the plant faid to be cultivated by Miller in the Hort. Kew 
nie: in referring that, to the Aizoon canarienfe of the fame wor 
bei c diftinGion of chara&ter 
the gratis pret of Miller 
“ Burmann, in : 
 Jimus; and Plukenet as Portulaca from Eatt Indian egies 
‘Ila 
pa 
era of the natural order of fucculents, fuch as Me- 
feesbryanthemum, Craffula, &c. that of an fader rthtncte number of 
pointals; which, in this genus, 
ree, to five, on different plants ; this circumftance not having been fufficiently attended 
ved from Spain ws our eee were Siro, by Mr. Anderfon in 1 ‘6, at the gardens of ‘J. Vere, 
ovember, and 
