Ice Plant
in botany, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. It is called ice plant from the many watery pustules covering its leaves and shining like ice.
It grows on sandy seashores at the Cape of Good Hope, in the Canary Islands, and in Greece near Athens. There are two varieties, M. crystallinum and M. cultivated in glaciale; the latter is that cultivated in gardens. The juice is said to be diuretic, and has been given in liver complaints.
The burnt ashes are used by the Spaniards like barilla in glass works. Called from its luster also diamond plant.
ICHANG (i-chang'), a walled town in the Chinese province of Hu-pei; on the Yang-tsze-Kiang, where it escapes from the limestone gorges and ravines of its middle course; 1,000 miles from Shanghai. In 1877 it was declared open to foreign trade, but in consequence of the difficulties connected with the navigation of the river, the competition of the Chinese, and official jealousy it advanced but slowly. Pop. (1917) 55,000.
Lin- ICHNEUMON (ik-nū'mon), a næan genus of insects, now constituting a family or tribe, Ichneumonida, of the order Hymenoptera, section Terebrantia They are extremely numerous in species.
Many of them are minute, others are large insects; the species of Fhyssa are are among the largest of insects. They have the abdomen united to the thorax by a pedicle, which is very often slender.
The abdomen itself is slender , and Icelanders had discovered Greenland the whole form attenuated. All the Ichneumonidæ deposit their eggs either (983) and part part of America (about in or on-generally in- in-the bodies, eggs, 1000), and they were now led to make voyages and travels to Europe and the East. In 1264 Magnus VI. of Norway united Iceland with his own kingdom , with which it passed to Denmark in 1380, remaining with the latter in 1814, when Norway was joined to Sweden.
The franchise was granted to women in July, 1915. The sale of liquors was prohibited by an act passed by the Althing in January, 1915. Complete in- Althing dependence dence is now (1920) being urged by a majority of the people. or larvæ of insects, or in spiders. Some of them deposit their eggs in aphides.
They are thus extremely useful to the farmer and gardener. Particular species of Ichneumonidæ are the natural enemies of particular kinds of other insects. Many caterpillars are infested by three or four species of ichneumons.