586 SEDACEAE 
in a dense terminal eyme. Sepals 4 or 5, 
decidedly longer than wide. Petals d or 5, 
yellowish, purplish, or greenish.  Follicles 
erect.—About 8 EROR natives of the north 
temperate zone ROSERO OTS 
R. roanensis Britton. Plant 1-4 dm. (V 
E _tufted: leaf-blades elliptic to euneate 
—3.5 em. long, entir 
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uu. : E um Mrd Britton]— 
(Pur E. RosEroor.)—Cliffs, 
Ho add. soil top of Roan Mt., Blue Ridge, N. C. and Tenn.—Spr.-sum. 
ANACAMPSEROS Mill. Perennial tufted herbs. Leaves alternate: 
saa fiat, relatively broad, often toothed. Flowers perfect, in terminal 
corymbose cymes. Sepals or 5, mostl 
ovate to one Petals 4 or 5, pink or 
purple, much longer than the sepals. Fol- 
licles 4 or 5, erect. Few species of the Old 
World, except the following. 
1, A. ag pecan (Michx. ) Haw. Plant 1-4 
. dm. tall, glabrous: leaf-blades mete duode 
e : 
oro 
lanceolate, about 2 mm. long: pe E pale- 
pink, elliptie to Ee evum de. 4.5—6 
mm. long: follicles 4-5 mm. long. [Sedum 
nd rocks, various prov- 
inces, N. of Coastal Plain, Ga. to Ill, W N. 
Y., and D. C. — Sum 
SEDUM L. Annual or a fleshy, often stoloniferous herbs. 
Dean alternate, opposite, or whorled: blades flat, but thick, turgid or terete, 
entire. Flowers perfect, in cymes which are often branched and sometimes 
ls 
e 
ously colored, longer than the sepals. Follicles 4 or 5, spreading, beaked, the 
beaks sometimes short.—About 200 species, most abundant in the temperate 
and cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere.—STONECROPS. SEDUMS. 
Sepals deltoid: carpels and follicles short-beaked. 1. S. pusillum. 
Se ERE ovate to linear: carpels and follicles long- or slender- 
e 
Corolla white to 
Plant perenni ‘al, a E leafy stolons; dnd me 
leaf- ‘blades t thick, but flat or somew zhat tu 
es 
ulate-obovate blades; leaves of fio owering 
stem with obovate to elliptic blades. 2. S. ternatum. 
Leaves of the rosettes of the stolons with spatulate 
or narrowly cuneate blades; leave the flower- 
ing stems with spatulate to cuneate blades. 3. S. Nevii. 
