SEDACEAE 587 
Plant annual, without stolons: petals pink or pinkish: 
leaf- blades terete or subterete, linear-filiform or 
very narrowly linear. 
Le ES linear- ui petals broadly lanceolate : 
follicles 6—7 mm. lon 4. S. pulchellum. 
Leaf-blades SUbtErCio narrowly linear; petals nar- 
ped lanceolate: follicles 4—4.5 mm. long. e a vigilimontis. 
. S. acre. 
Corolla yellow ! 
1. S. pusillum Michx. Plant 5-12 em. pu. n. green, the stem glabrous, sim- 
ple or branched throughout: leaves 2-9 m Ong; blades spatulate to obovate 
or rin. turgid, obtuse: ne. often 
eopiously flowered, but not densely so: 
pedicel clavate: sepals deltoid, 1 mm. g 
arly s cute: pe whi 
—( 
RPINE.) —Rocks, chiefly granite, Piedmont 
ad Blue Ridge, M Ga. to N. C.—Spr. 
. S. ternatum Michx. Plant light-green, 
with matted branches: leaves various, those 
f the sterile shoots whorled near the tip, 
alternate api with the bear obovate to 
subor ape ostly 1-2 ¢ DE; - a 
per ones of "ue flowering Pu 
Tu with obovate to TA Sere ' sepals about 5 mm. long: petals 
broadly lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long: follicles 5.5-8 mm. ong.—(MOUNTAIN-STONE 
C 
banks, v arious provinces, rarely Coastal Plain, Ga. to Mo., Mich., and Mas 
Spr.—Extensively grazed by sheep in the mountains in winter 
3. S. Nevii A. Gray. Plant light-green, with often densely matted branches: 
leaves various, those of the sterile shoots alternate, but lap crowded, with 
the blades narrowly ¢ cuneate to spatulate, mostly 0.5-2 em. long; the upper 
leaves of the flowe ering E hes scatt tered, with cuneate, phun or linear- 
m. 
spatulate blades: sepals 3-3. ae ong: petals ee owly lanceolate, 5-6 m 
long: follicles 44.5 mm. long.—(CLIFF-STONECROP. )—Roc woods, Blue 
Ae Appalachian provinces, and rarely Interior "Low and us Plateaus, 
Ga. to Mo. and Va.—Spr. 
4. S. pulchellum Miehx. Plant 5-30 em. tall, bright-green, the stem branched, 
ascending or decu ge E ur TOW wded, terete, linear-filiform o mm 
long: flowers erowded o e Vp ee sepals narrowly ovate, '2. ke mm. 
long: petals broadly elec ate, 5-6 mm. ed anthers about 1 m pni. 
follicles 6-7. i long, relatively pe -beaked — (Rocx-cn ESS. Rock 
WiDOW'S CRO s.)—Caleareous rocks, 20m provinces, N of Coastal Plain, 
Ga. to Tex., Kans, and W Va.—Spr.— 
5. S. vi igilimontis Small Plant 6-15 em. tall, ee. ota pa stems gam or 
ascending: leaves numerous, subterete, rca wiy linear, 0.5-2 cm. long: flowers 
rather close on the cyme-branches, but id ' sepals “narrowly Da 
ie 1.5-2 mm. long: petals wy ed ph ate, 3.5-4 mm. long: anthers 
about 0.6 mm. long: follicles 4—4.5 mm. long, relatively Ho bue — Rocks, 
lower slopes, Lookout Mt., Ga.—Spr. 
6. S. e L. Plant in a depresse ed Rd. the stems very leafy, dct 
S. green: leaf-blades very thick, vate, 2-5 mm, long, imbricate: sepals 
E 2-2.5 . long: petals TREE HUM "3-6, 5 mm. long: follicles broad, 4-5 
pe 
m. lo ong or pets shorter, short- beaked.— (MOSSY-STONECROP. GOLD-MOSS. 
