A native of North America, where it is found on rocks ìn 
the western parts of Pensylvania, Virginia, and Carolina. 
We know of no figure of it; although one of the hand- 
somest and fittest plants for covering walls or rock-work of 
any in our gardens; into which it was first introduced by 
Sir Joseph Banks in 1789. Begins to flower in June, and 
continues to do so abundantly for a considerable time. 
Soon forms a large close tuft, with stems about four 
inches high. Leaves flat, succulent, thick, in whorls 
of three each decussating the one the other at small dis- 
tances, from half an inch to more than an inch in length, 
those on the stem which do not belong to the inflorescence, 
Obovately spatulate, or with a roundish blade narrowed 
downwards, those more immediately connected with the 
inflorescence alternate, much narrower, oval lanceolate. 
Flowers, terminal, octandrous, generally in three many- 
flowered spikes, deriving from the same point at the sum- 
mit of the stem, and having a single decandrous flower 
seated at their confluence, recurvedly divergent, leafy, with 
flowers pointing inwards, and alternating with the floral 
leaves, the upper ones of which are disposed in a double row 
behind them. Calyx herbaceous, 4-parted, with thick 
linear oblong bluntish segments. Corolla white, 4-parted, 
about half an inch across, stellate, with narrow lanceolate 
channelled divisions. Stamens 8, a third shorter than the 
corolla: anthers reddish brown. Germens 4, white, stellate, 
oblong-acuminate, with a suture along the inner margin, 
More prominent and partly dehiscent towards the base. 
Hypogynous scales. minute, oblong, sguared, becoming 
yellow. ' 
The drawing was made from a plant at the nursery of 
Messrs Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith. A hardy 
plant, requiring the common treatment of the other sorts, 
