. 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 ( ) 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,
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. 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 ( ) 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. R.H. ]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«5.-iEf. 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- scure). Orchidiicea'. The plants cultivated as Mesospi- nidium are referred by some to the genus Cochlioda. They have the habit of a slender Odontoglossum, with sheath- ing Ivs. at the base of the pseudobulbs. Fls. in racemes or panicles; sepals and petals sub-similar, expanded; labellum with 2 longitudinal ridges, adnate to the col- umn, with rounded lateral lobes and a narrow middle lobe: column long or short: pollinia2, seated onarhom- boid pedicel. These plants are evergreen coolhouse orchids, and thrive well in baskets of peat and moss, with plenty of water. Cochlioda has about 5 species, of "which the following is oft