. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1396, Common Ice-plant—Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, (XK.) rying to light rose-color. S. Afr., Greece, Canary Islands, S. Calif. —Grown for its glistening foliage. Pis. open in the sun. cc. Fls. yellow, long-pediincled. 25. pomeridianum, Linn. Stem simple or forking, the branches ascending, hairy on branches,
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1396, Common Ice-plant—Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, (XK.) rying to light rose-color. S. Afr., Greece, Canary Islands, S. Calif. —Grown for its glistening foliage. Pis. open in the sun. cc. Fls. yellow, long-pediincled. 25. pomeridianum, Linn. Stem simple or forking, the branches ascending, hairy on branches, peduncles and calices: Ivs. lance-spatulate or spatulate. narrowed into a petiole, ciliate: 2 of the calyx lobes longer than the petals; petals linear-lanceolate. 26. gl&brum, Ait. Glabrous : Ivs. lance-spatulate, petiolate and dilated at base: fls. straw-colored, darker at the eye; lobes of the calyx linear and unequal. BB. JRoot perennial and the stem becoming somewhat woody, 0. Lvs. flat, petiolate. 27. cordiSdlium, Linn. Stems 1-2 ft., diffuse, minutely papillose: lvs. opposite, 1 in. or less long and nearly as wide, cordate-ovate, somewhat pajjillose: fls. solitary, peduncled, purple, the petals short and linear. A var. "variegatum is in cult., and is a good half-hardy trailing plant. cc. Lvs. compressed-triqttetrous, not petiolate. 2S. ^leg'ans, Jacq. Shrubby, 6-12 in. or more tall, branchy, whitish or red: lvs. crowded, K in. long and very narrow, very glaucous, scabrous: fls. numerous, mostly panicled, pale red (or whitish), the petals % in. long. COO. Jji's. terete or nearly so. D. Branches hispid or iristly. 29. subcomprSsanm, Haw. Erect, 2 ft.: lvs. not crowded, % in. or less long, narrow,-verj' blunt, green- ish canescent, flattened-terete: fls. solitary, purplish; calyx lobes unequal. 30. Jloribundum, Haw. Tortuous in growth, the branches not over 6 in. long, more or less decumbent: lvs. less than 1 in. lon^, very narrow, terete, curved, obtuse, a litt
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