illesanbnmntljcmum crgstallinum. Natural Order: Mesembryacece — 
Ice-Plant Family. 
OT a little curious and attractive, this plant has its foliage 
entirely covered with protuberances about the size of grains 
V barley, that appear like the most transparent ice, whence 
it is called crystallinum; the other part of its scientific name, 
from the Greek, denotes Midday Flower. The branches 
are trailing, from ten to twelve inches in length, and pro- 
duce white flowers durino- the whole summer. It is from Greece. 
There have been some new varieties introduced from the Cape of 
Good Hope, that are adapted for conservatory culture, the flowers 
of which are yellow, purple, purple and pink, and purple and white 
combined. They require very little moisture in winter, once or 
twice a month being sufficient, but the quantity should be increased 
to a generous allowance when the blossoms begin to appear. The 
different varieties, of which there are several hundred, have quite a 
diversity of foliage. 
/AH, she is colder than the mountain’s snow; 
To such a subtle purity she’s wrought, 
She’s pray’d and fasted to a walking thought. 
ATO dews of love can warm the iceberg heart, 
1 ' Or melt the Alpine snows upon her breast; 
E’en flowers cease to spread their leaves apart, 
If by her chilling foot they ’re prest. 
HOSE glances work on me like the weak shine 
The frosty sun throws on the Appenine, 
When the hills’ active coldness doth go near 
To freeze the glimmering taper to his sphere. 
— Beaumont. 
■ — Crown. 
The sculptur’d beauty of her marble face 
Is chill and cold as e’er was marble stone; 
Those veinlets blue, that o’er her temples trace, 
Are like a springlet from a glacier thrown. 
— C. H. T. 
ANST thou no kindly ray impart, 
Thou■ strangely beauteous one? 
Fairer than fairest work of art, 
Yet cold as sculptured stone! 
— Ordvjay. 
