mesembryanthemums

When first taken possession of, these parts are said to have been covered with a coating of grass, but that has disappeared with the antelopes which fed upon it, and a crop of mesembryanthemums and crassulas occupies its place.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Omniscient One; for, as we may now observe in the Kalahari Desert, another family of plants, the mesembryanthemums, stood ready to neutralize the aridity which must otherwise have followed.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

It is for this reason that cactuses, mesembryanthemums, and other plants of a similar description, require very little water when kept in pots.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832 Various

The grounds are laid out in a succession of terraces, and from every nook and crevice rare specimens of cacti, sedums, and mesembryanthemums with their orange and purple bloom sprawl over the rocks and run riot among the borders.

The Cornwall Coast

There are a number of other succulents sometimes used for house plants, among them the aloes, mesembryanthemums (fig marigolds), echeverias (_E. metallica_ being the best sort), sedums and house leeks

Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse 1930

In the latter position, suitable plants for drooping would be: tropeolums, (A) passifloras, (A) the single petunias, sweet alyssum, lobelias, verbenas, mesembryanthemums.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

It is a gift of nature to the desert regions -- where it grows in greatest luxuriance, and where it serves the same purpose in the economy of the savage natives as the _ixias, mesembryanthemums_, and

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

The chief portion of the land traversed consists of land-dunes and flats of the same nature, the latter clothed with porcupine grass, the former with salt bushes, grasses, and a variety of shrubs, sometimes intermixed with mesembryanthemums and porcupine grass.

Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia William John Wills 1847

The numerous families of the pellitories, the chamomiles, the mesembryanthemums, pushed their varied and abundant tufts through the loop-holes in the walls, cracked and fissured in spite of their thickness.

The Village Rector Honor�� de Balzac 1824