_Generic Character._ _Petala_ 5. _Cal._ urceolatus, 5-fidus, carnosus, collo coarctatus. _Sem._ plurima, hispida, calycis interiori lateri affixa. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ ROSA _muscosa_ caule petiolisque aculeatis, pedunculis calycibusque pilosissimis. _Miller's Dict._ [Illustration: 69] If there be any one genus of plants more universally admired than the others, it is that of the Rose--where is the Poet that has not celebrated it? where the Painter that has not made it an object of his imitative art? In the opinion of MILLER, the Moss Rose, or Moss Province, as it is frequently called, is a perfectly distinct species; LINNAEUS considers it as a variety only of the _centifolia_: as it is found in our Nurseries in a double state only, and as we are ignorant of what country it is the produce, the decision of this matter must be left to future observation and inquiry. Though it may not increase so fast by suckers, nor be increased so readily by layers, as the _centifolia_, there is no difficulty in propagating it either way; the latter mode is usually adopted. [70] ~Mesembryanthemum barbatum. Bearded Fig-Marigold.~ _Class and Order._ ~Icosandria Pentagynia~. _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 5-fidus. Petala numerosa, linearia. _Caps._ carnosa, infera, polysperma. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ MESEMBRYANTHEMUM _barbatum_, foliis subovatis papulosis distinctis, apice barbatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 469._ MESEMBRYANTHEMUM radiatum, ramulis prolixis recumbentibus. _Dillen. Hort. Elth. 245. t. 190. f. 234._ [Illustration: 70] The leaves of this species have small hairs, issuing like rays from their points, whence its name of _barbatum_; there are two others figured by DILLENIUS, whose leaves have a great similarity of structure, and which are considered by LINNAEUS as varieties of this species; our plant is the _Stellatum_ of MILLER's _Dict._ _ed._ 6. 4_to_. Like most of this tribe it inhabits the Cape, flowers in July, and is readily propagated by cuttings. [71] ~Statice sinuata. Purple-cup't Statice, or Thrift.~ _Class and Order._ ~Pentandria Pentagynia.~ _Generic Character._ _Cal._ 1-phyllus, integer, plicatus, scariosus. _Petala_ 5. _Sem._ 1. superum. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ STATICE _sinuata_ caule herbaceo, foliis radicalibus alternatim pinnato sinuatis: caulinis ternis triquetris subulatis decurrentibus. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab._ _p._ 301. LIMONIUM peregrinum foliis asplenii. _Bauh. Pin. 192._ LIMONIUM Rauwolfii Marsh Buglosse. _Parkins. Parad. p. 250._ [Illustration: 71] That this singular species of _Statice_ was long since an inhabitant of our gardens, appears from PARKINSON, who in his _Garden of Pleasant Flowers_, gives an accurate description of it, accompanied with an expressive figure; since his time it appears to have been confined to few gardens: the nurserymen have lately considered it as a newly-introduced species, and sold it accordingly.