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SEMPERVIVUM MONANTHES. DWARF HOUSELEEK.


_Class and Order._

DODECANDRIA DODECAGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 12-partitus. _Petala_ 12. _Capsulæ_ 12. polyspermæ.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

SEMPERVIVUM _monanthes_ foliis teretibus clavatis confertis, pedunculis
nudis subunifloris, nectariis obcordatis. _Aiton. Hort. Kew._

[Illustration: No 93]

It appears from the _Hortus Kewensis_, the publication of which is daily
expected, that the plant here figured was first brought to this country
from the Canary Islands, by Mr. FRANCIS MASSON, in the year
1777.

It is highly deserving the notice of the Botanist, not only as being by
far the least species of the genus, but on account of its Nectaria;
these, though not mentioned by LINNÆUS in his character of the genus,