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122. SEDUM miserum. 



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S. miserum; caulibus procumbentibus, foliis inferioribus sparsis teretibus de- 

 pressis superioribus ovato-linearlbus semicylhidraceis agirrcpatis, florlbus 



sessilibus solitariis terminalibus, sepalis foliaceis petalis ovatis cucuHatis 

 apiculatis aspero-carinatis longioribus, staminibus petalinis brcviorlbus, 

 s^uamis cuneatis retusis. 



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An inconspicuous succulent annual, raised from Mexican 

 seeds, imported by George Frederick Dickson, Esq. It grows 

 about nine inches high, or rather longer, for it falls prostrate 

 if not supported ; its flowers are green, and almost hidden 

 among the fleshy leafy sepals. It multiplies itself by seeds, 

 and by fragments of its brittle branches, which drop off the 

 parent, and strike root into the ground. 



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123. CARPESIUM pubescens. 



Wall. Cat. n. 3199. . DC prodr. v. 281. 



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This plant has lately flowered in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, where it was raised from seeds received 

 from Dr. Falconer. It is certainly a mere variety of Carpe- 

 dum cernuum^ and hardly so much. Nor does there ap- 

 pear any good character to distinguish from our European 

 plant the G. nepalense of Lessing. The copious hairiness of 

 that supposed species is nearly equalled by the plant now 

 before me ; and the size of the capitula, described by De 

 Candolle as being four lines broad, is of no importance ; for 

 on the same living cultivated specimen they vary from five 

 to twelve lines in diameter, according to their age. 



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124. ONCIDIUM hians. 



lans; sepalis petalisque sequalibus ovalibus obtusis leviter concavis, labello 

 ano^usto auriculato medio contracto apice bilobo, callo disci bilobo utrlnque 

 dentato carnoso papilloso erecto columna parallelo eique longitudine a^quali, 



alls columnae carnosis acutis vix falcatis. 



I have only seen flowers of tlils little species, which comes 

 near to O- carinatum. Messrs. Rollissons received it from 



I. September, 1838. k 



