MESEMBRY A N T H E M U M. 
colour is grey glaucous. The flowers come out later, 
namely in September and October; they are fomewhat 
fmaller, purple tending to pale violet, and fhining. Lin- 
nasus fufpe&s it to be a male, and fays that it differs in 
having the calyx fix-leaved, with fix llyles and cells ; the 
peduncles hif'pid ; and the leaves imbricate, 
7. JV 1 . denl'um, great dwarf. This refembles the pre¬ 
ceding fo much, that the difference is fcarcely apparent, 
unlefs they are obferved very carefully. It might be taken 
for a younger plant of the other ; however the cuttings 
never protrude fuch thick and long leaves ; the fpinules 
of this are longer, thicker, more rigid, and more hoary ; 
and the old plants grow lefs to ftalk, and throw out fewer 
and fliorter branches. Native of the Cape. It flowers 
from June to Auguft. 
25. Mefembryanthemum hifpidum, or briftly fig-mari¬ 
gold: leaves cylindric, papulofe, diftinft ; Item hifpid. See 
the fame Plate, fig. 25. Flower fweet-fmelling, very like 
that of the preceding, from which perhaps it originally 
fprung, lofing the beard of the leaves, and having it {bat¬ 
tered over the Item. Stems and branches from a foot and 
a half to two feet in length, numerous, fpreading every 
way, {lender, the lower joints fwelling out into knots, an 
inch or fomewhat more diftant. Leaves dark green, and 
generally glaucous, but fhining with innumerable icy glo¬ 
bules clofely heaped together, and putting out from the 
axils, one, two, or three, fmaller pairs ; they are ftraight, 
thickifli, and being very blunt at the end they frequently 
hang down by their weight. Stem and branches fmootli 
at bottom, but towards the middle and on the upper 
branches very hairy. Flowers rather large, compofed of 
loofe entire petals in a fingle row, of a deep bright-purple 
colour; capfules fmall, five-cornered, exhibiting when 
ripe a pentagon ftar. Older plants have fliorter leaves 
and peduncles. Confined in a pot, it never takes root at 
the joints ; but in the full ground the branches trail and 
fometimes flrike root. The flowers, opening in a morn¬ 
ing, make a fine appearance. 
/ 3 . Pallidum, pale-flowered. Lower, more branched, 
and lefs upright, than the preceding. Leaves paler, with 
fmaller icy globules, fomewhat longer and narrower, not 
ltraight, but curved inwards, lefs thick at the ends. By 
age this plant becomes much branched and twilled, not 
exceeding a foot in height. 
7. Striatum, ftriped-flowered. Stems with fliort hairs on 
them, like |3, which it refembles in the narrownefs of the 
leaves, but they are fliorter, and have larger icy globules ; 
the flowers alfo are larger, and of a deeper purple. It dif¬ 
fers from both the preceding varieties in having the ca¬ 
lyx and bafe of the fruit very hairy, in having the petals 
marked along the middle with a ltreak a deeper purple, 
and the ftaniens collebled into a ball, and never fcattered ; 
they are of a pale green with a red circle in the umbilicus. 
Mr. Haworth regards this as fpecifically diftinft from Lin- 
meus's hifpidum, from which, he fays, it is very readily to 
be diftinguifhed by the peduncles and calyxes being very 
denfely covered with woolyifli hairs, and by the face of the 
plant itfelf. This is a more robuft plant, with ftouter 
branches, and bolder flowers, with broader denier petals. 
It opens its gay ftriated flowers in the forenoon ; is very 
often in bloom ; and, the flowers being numerous, they 
make a fine appearance when expanded, but are hand- 
fomeft the firft time of opening, for they lofe their gayefl co¬ 
lours long before they fade quite away. The varieties are 
all natives of the Cape ; flowering a great part of the year. 
26. Mefembryanthemum villofum, or hairy-llalked fig- 
marigold : leaves pubefcent, connate, undotted; Hem 
hairy. Leaves lefs fucculent than thole of any other fpe- 
cies, connate, but appearing diftinbl unlefs attentively 
examined ; they are linear, fcarcely pimpled, or, if fo, the 
pimples are extremely minute, Alining in the fun, and of 
a dark-green colour; they are channelled above, with a 
convex or rounded keel, flightly attenuated both ways, 
rather dilating again at the very bafe, and embracing the 
item, where they are quite deftitute of fucculency, and 
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flightly membranaceous at the edges, with a white mid¬ 
rib ; the membrane at the bafe is ciliate ; the reft of the 
leaf nearly frnooth, or having diftant fmall white hairs- 
fcattered over both fides. Flowers folitary, terminating, 
rarely feen, opening to a very warm fun only, in the fore¬ 
noon. Native of the Cape; cultivated in 1759, by Mr. 
Miller. 
27. Mefembryanthemum bra&eatum, or brableated fig- 
marigold: leaves fomewhat fabre-ihaped, dotted, recurved 
at the tip ; brubles embracing, broad-ovate, keeled. 
Height from a foot and a half to two feet. Stem not very 
fhrubby, nor very thick. Branches woody, the thicknefa 
of a ftraw, procumbent, round, covered with an afli-co- 
loured bark ; the upper Ihoots of a yellowdlh bay colour, 
becoming pale herbaceous ; they are broadifli immediately 
under the flowers, thence gradually more {lender, flightly 
comprefled, and winged on each tide with a procefs from 
the back of the leaves. Leaves difform : thole which are 
faftened to the peduncles (brables) fliort and thick; the 
others longer, and not fo thick, with other fmaller leaves 
from the axils ; all uncinate, fubglaucous, rugged with 
frequent tubercles of the fame colour, which held up to 
the light appear to be fo many porous dots. Flowers on 
peduncles from an inch to two inches in length, fmall, 
pale purple ; fmelling like thofe of hawthorn, open both 
day and night, for a long time and in great abundance, 
there being a fucceflion of them from July to Oblober. 
Native of the Cape; cultivated in 1732, at Eltham, by 
James Sherard, M.D. 
28. Mefembryanthemum fcabrum, or rugged fig-mari¬ 
gold : leaves awl-fhaped, diftinbl, muricate-dotted all¬ 
round underneath ; calyxes awnlefs. Stems woody, at 
bottom bay, the branches yellow’ilh brown, procumbent, 
round at bottom, but fomewhat angular above. Flow'ers 
folitary, few (two or three), violet purple and {tuning, 
but becoming paler, opening two or three times, before 
and after noon. Native of the Cape; cultivated in the 
Eltham garden in 1732. 
29. Mefembryanthemum reptans, or creeping fig-mari¬ 
gold : leaves three-fided, acute, rugged; Item creeping. 
Leaves between papulofe and tubercled ; much rougher, 
more glaucous, and more acutely pointed, than in any 
other reptant lpecies. The branches are angular, and 
finally fomewhat woody. In the open air, it will extend 
the branches above a foot and a half every way ; and they 
will be fixed firmly to the ground at every joint by ftrong 
fibres. Native of the Cape, where it was found by Maflon. 
It flow'ers in July and Auguft. 
30. Mefembryanthemum emarginatum, or notch-flow¬ 
ered fig-marigold: leaves awl-ihaped, heaped, lbmew'hat 
rugged ; calyxes fpiny ; petals emarginate. Shrubby but 
procumbent; even when tied up, its irregular twilled 
branches wdll hang down ; they are round towards the top, 
and of a yellow'iflr-bay colour, but quadrangular at bottom. 
Flowers feveral, middle-fized, with fcarcely any odour, 
on {lender oblong peduncles; petals very many, lying 
one over the other; they are or a moft vivid violet co¬ 
lour ; but the flowers expand only about noon, when the 
fun is very hot: they continue long, and open feveral 
times if the fun Ihines hot. Native of the Cape. It 
flow'ers from June to Auguft. 
31. Mefembryanthemum uncinatum, or hook-leaved 
fig-marigold : joints of the Item terminated by connate, 
acuminate, dotted, leaves, toothed underneath. Stems 
{lender, round ; branches more frequent than in va¬ 
riety | 3 , more reclining, with much {mailer and more re¬ 
curved leaves, having only one fliort fpinule at the back j 
they end in a lpinuie as that does, but it is fliorter and 
whitifn, whereas in {3 it is purplilh. Stems and branches, 
though rigid, yet are procumbent. The leaves, and in¬ 
ternodes, which are elongations of the leaves invelling- 
the Hems, are dotted with fmaller dots than in ,3; they 
are both of a fuller glaucous green colour, and not lb 
white; the bark alfo of the Hem is not fo white, but ra¬ 
ther of a yellow and brown dulky whitilh colour. The 
Y y internodes. 
