. 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 MESBMBRYANTHEMUM MESPILUS AA. Papulosa: 2-*lant nsualhj hearing glittering pa- pilloi, vesicles or projeetions on stems and Ivs.,— hence the popular name Ice Plant (species 24-33). B. Hoot anmial or biennial {cult, as anmials). c. JJ^ls. white or rose-color, sessile or nearly so. 24. crystalllnum, Linn. Ic
. 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 MESBMBRYANTHEMUM MESPILUS AA. Papulosa: 2-*lant nsualhj hearing glittering pa- pilloi, vesicles or projeetions on stems and Ivs.,— hence the popular name Ice Plant (species 24-33). B. Hoot anmial or biennial {cult, as anmials). c. JJ^ls. white or rose-color, sessile or nearly so. 24. crystalllnum, Linn. Ice Plant. Pig. 1396. A common plant in window-gardens and lianging baskets, and readily grown from seeds (which are offered by seedsmen), procumbent: Ivs. flat, fleshy, ovate or long- spatulate, usually clasping, undulate, covered with glistening dots or elevations: fls. small, whitish or va- ^1*^. 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. Shrubb
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