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SEMPERVIVUaj 



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Clammy Hovseleeh. 



DODECANDUIA nODBCAGYNXA. 



Nat. ord, Semperviv^, Jusszeu ^en. 307. 

 SEMPER VI V UM, Supr^ vol. i fol. 99. 



&. gluhnosum, caule frutescente, foliis cuneiformibus viscidis ciliatis, cilii* 



cartilagmeis appressis. HorL Ketv. 2. 14?. 

 Sempervivum glutinosum. mild, sp, pi % 931, HoH. Kem. ed. 2, 3, 172 



Jacq. hort. schcenb. 4. 32. t. 464. Curtis's magaz. 1963. Poiret suppl. 



encyc. de Lamarck. 3. 176. /T* 



Candexfruiicosus, pollicem crassus, Lrevis, teres y erectus^ glaher, radzcans, 

 undique emittens ramos ascendentes ceu totidem caules, ^ S ad 4< pedes altos, 

 crassos, glutinosos, foUosos^ debiles, superne in paniculam abeuntes amplam 

 laxamque ex peduncidis subdivisis et pateniissimis. Fol. sparsa, cuneiformiq, 

 obtusa cum parvo acumine^ venis nervisque destUuta, crassa, carnosa, virentia^ 

 ad oras cartilagineO'Ciliata ciliis subappressis. Cai. glutinosm, circiter decern" 

 dentatus, viridis. Pet. 8-10, lanceolata, patentissima, flava. Gexmma toti^ 

 dem quotpetala. Stam. petalis duplo plura. Jacq. loc. cit. 



Native of the Island of Madeira, where it was observed 

 by Mr. Masson, the king's late botanical collector, and in- 

 troduced in 1777. Its blossom makes a lively appearance 

 in the greenhouse, where it continues in beauty for two or 

 three months together. The foliage is suffused with a trans- 

 parent viscous confluent excretion, and looks as if newly, 

 varnished. Small insects are ensnared in this Mmy surface. 

 The species was fii-st represented by a figure in the Hoitus 

 Schoenbrunnensis of Jacquin, one of the most splendid works 

 in this department of Natural History. 



Stem shrubby, nearly an inch in diameter, smooth, short, 

 putting out a gi'eater or less number of weak thickly limed 

 flower-stalks, from 2 to 4 feet in length, dividing up- 

 wards into alternate wideset leafy subdivided panicles, with 

 loosely flowered spikelets. Leaves scattered, spreading, ap- 

 proaching each other in the form of an expanded rose at 

 the top of the stem, cuneately oblong, bright, limy, 3 to 4 

 inches long, thick, fleshy, cartilaginously fiinged at the edge 

 with the fringe generally close-pressed, rounded at the top 

 with a small point, gradually diminishing to small fleshy con- 

 cave grades as they ascend on the flower-stalk: pedicles not 



so long as the flower is wide- Calyx 9-10-clejft^ green^ limy. 



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