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SEDUM ternatum, | IEEE 
Three-leaved american Stonc-crop, : 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, 
Nat.ord. SEMPERVIVE. Jussieu gen. 907. 
SEDUM. Cal. inferus, 5-partitus. Pet. 5, imo calyci inserta, 
ealycinis divisuris numero «qualia et iisdem altema. Stam. dupla quo» 
rum alterna petalorum ungui inserta, alterna imo calyci: anth. su 
tundm. Germina petalis numero egualia, basi interiori juncta, exteriori 
glandnlosa glandulis sguamiformibus; styli et stigmata totidem. Caps. 
totidem, 1-loc., polysperma, intis bivalves, marginibus velvarum semi» 
niferis. Herbe succulente; folia alterna, planu aut teretia; flores 
corymbosi, axillares et sepiìs terminales. Jussieu gen. 307, 
B. ternatum, pumilum, repens} foliis planis rotundo-spathulatis ternis, 
eyma subtristachya, floribus sessilibus, octandris, cemtro decandro, 
Pursh amer. sept. 1. 394. 
Sedum ternatum. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 277. Persoon eyn. 1.512. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 119. 
Sedum deficiens. Donn cant. ed. 6. 126, 
Sedum octagon. Hortulanis. 
Sedum americanum. Herb. Banks. . 
Sedum annuum caule compresso, foliis obversé ovatis. Gron, virg. ed, 
2. 71. 
Sedum saxatile floribus albis, foliis succulentis subrotundis, caule rubente, 
Clayt. Herb. n. 891. : e 
Anacampseros ternata. Haworth succ. 114. . n. . 
Herba perennis cespitosa: caules stricti, foliati, Aoriferi sub frgenciales, 
Prúinosi, subrubentes. Folia caulina plana, crassa, terno-verticillata, verticillis 
decussatis, glabra, semuncialia v. infra ad uncialia v. suprà ; florelia oxalidon- 
ceolata. Inflorescentia terminalis, numerosa, sæpiùs irifurcodrietachya fore 
solitaria in centro trifurcationis ; spice recurvo-divergentes, alterno-secunde, 
Soliate, foliis poné spicam alternantibus cum floribus, Cal. Merbaceus, 4-partitus, 
is lineari-oblongis, obesis, obtusiusculis, corallá j-parte brevior, Cor. 
alba, 4-partita, semunciam transversa, stellata, laciniis angustine (anceolatis, 
acuminatis, canaliculatis. Stam. 8, & breviora. corolla, equantia pistilla : anth, 
erectas, sagittato-ovate, rubida-brunnee, Germ. 4, al d, erecto-stellata, ob. 
longa, attenuata, ints suturá marginata et basi rimá labris tumidiusculis pro- 
minentioribus hiulca : stylus brevis continuus subulatus ; stig. punctum acutum, 
Squame hypogyne minute denud lutescentes, oblongo-quadrate, subdenii- 
formes. 
The species was recorded in the Flora virginica of Gro- 
novius (1743), but seems to have missed its Ê ace in all sub- 
seguent enumerations of plants, until Michaux's work ap- 
peared (1803), in which it stands under the present name, 
