. 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. 1008 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM 1\IESI'1LUS AA. Papulosa: Plant x.'^ifalli; hi'uruu/ glittering pn- j'itla;^ vesicles or project ions on ^ a nit ^.,~ hence the j^opular name Ice Plant (species 24-3^1). B. Hoot annual or biennial {cult, as annuals). 0. Pis. ivlilte or rose-color, sessile or nearl)j so. 24. crys
. 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. 1008 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM 1\IESI'1LUS AA. Papulosa: Plant x.'^ifalli; hi'uruu/ glittering pn- j'itla;^ vesicles or project ions on ^ a nit ^.,~ hence the j^opular name Ice Plant (species 24-3^1). B. Hoot annual or biennial {cult, as annuals). 0. Pis. ivlilte or rose-color, sessile or nearl)j so. 24. crystallinum, Linn. Ice Plant. Fi^. 1.^90. A common plunt in \viiulo\v-;j;'ar(lcns ami hunting baskets, and readily grown from seeils (which are offered by seedsmen), procumbent: Ivs. tlat, fleshy, ovate or long- spatulate, nsuiiUy clasping, undulate, covered with glistening dots or elevations: fls. snniU, wdiitish or va-. 1396 Common Ice plant—Mesembryanthemum crystallinum ( \) rying to light rose-color. S. Afr., Greece, Canary I'slands, S. Calif. —Grown for its glistening foliage. Fls. open in the sun. CO. Fls. jjeUoir, long-pednncled. 1~). pomeridianum, Ijinn. Stem simple or forking, the branches ascending, hair}' on branches, peduncles and in. long and very narrow, very ghun-rius, scidirdus: tls. numerous, mostly panicled, pale red (or whitishi, the petals }ove and convex beneath, ciliato also at the base: calyx longer: lis. reddish violet. ]8G9, p. 356. Accessible pictures of Mesembryanthemiims which are not mentioned in American lists, are as follows: M. Bolusii Hook, f. B. M. 6604.—ikf. JirOwnit, Hook. f. B. M. 69« crlniflbruiii, Linn. R. H. 18.'37, p. 122 (as M. cuneifolium),—Jf, flcifdrme, Haw. G. C. II. 25:373.—If. minvtum. Haw. R. H. 1869, p. 356.—J/, pvgioniforme, Linn. R. H. 1857, p. 178.—J/. rbseuin, Willd. Gn. 52, p. 4.'i9.—Ji, testiculdtuni, Jacq. R. H. 1869, p. 35 {as M. octophyllum). L H B MESOSPIWfDIUM (Greek compound; meaning ob- scu
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