IcojANMiA Linn;,, 
sun-bright MESEMBRYANTHEMUr 
E S E M B R Y A N T H E M U M T £ N U I F O L I U m 
l-F fingularity or elegance alone can recommend a Plant to notice non 
1 ,|,c doable claim of tins; for it has both. The antutor’d Africa. “h 
,, i, d,rart : and the more vve have of knowledge, the greater we mart own'i”?- 
,0 that diftinaion. Its general form, the manner of its growth the nnr I' 
Leaves; and above all, its glowing Flowers command our eftimatioS 
claim it has to our regard: tho’ a native of very fa I try regions it bears'thn ra 
Europe, better than moff Plants from the fame burning quarter Th ’ 
„ccd of ihelter, than a green-houfe will afford ; and with good managemem,!"!!™"' 
many months in a common border. ® 
The Stalks have little ftrength or firmnefs: they naturally throw themfelves everv wav 
upon the ground, and the Plant forms a kind of circular tuft wherein the i> ^ i 
llcihy Leaves make a pleafing var.ety with the crimfon Stalks, before the FlowerTf If 
their fuperior beauty. The Leaves are thick ’and juicy, almoft rounded m the“circu'u" 
ferenee. and fharp at the point. They are green all the year ; and as the ftraog!:'!: 
branches hang from the rough rocks, or cover the burnt fands. they cannot bntcornl'nH 
, at untverfal attentron which is paid them. With us a fmall pot of earth feeds rl 
plant, and they fall over its edges very beautifully. ™ 
This Flower leads us a ftep more forward, in the 
ual Syftcm, than we have hi- 
erto advanced: thye we have named already, ffewed the charader of their feveral 
dffi f ‘heir Filaments, the clafs being named thence ; and thi 
M.na.on holdsasfaras twelve. Thofe which have twelve Filaments, being Dodecan- 
Filament " "^1 1 ‘"he, and nature offers not one, whofe 
aments are eleven : at Icaft, none fuch has yet been difcover'd. 
Fihmenrt'he- hy the arrangement of the 
filaments, their proportion, or their place of infertion. 
Planth hy the infertion of the Filaments- this 
di?rFw"t? • ’f ’ "" 
diftinaion • k r J ‘"'^nty Filaments, but the account is not the article of 
Pri^'dinlefslr 1 r 'he character of tlie clafs is not com - 
‘he Petals nr C " 'r'"" has a hollow Cup form’d of one piece ; 
■"ents whirh ‘h® are fixed to the fide of the Cup; and the 1 il,i- 
“‘elf;'not to t^^ ‘“""erous, are inferred either on the fide of the Cup, or to the Flower 
charaacr of head of the Stalk whence the Flower rifes; for that is the 
a iltina clafs, the Polyandria of which we fiiall fpeak hereafter. 
This * 
""eft fi-ted in t^e comple.\' diftindlions of the Linntean Syftem, and fiiould be 
author of thp Q - ‘he prefent Flower is a very proper inftance, tho' the great 
" Syftem once, himfelf, miftook it. 
Mefembrj-anthemum foliis Lubulatis fenii-tcrctibiis 
A'-*, ^ 
glabris imernodio longioribus. 
Lin. 
