Tas. 6223. 
SEDUM putcHetium. 
Native of the United States. 
Nat. Ord. CrassuLacEa&. 
Genus SepuM, Linn, (Benth. et Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol. i., p. 659). 
SEDUM pulchellum ; glaberrimum, ramis assurgentibus simpliciusculis foliosis, foliis 
sessilibus erecto- vy. recurvo- patentibus cylindraceis obtusis basi auriculatis 
auriculis obtusis v. in cornua divergentia productis, cymis umbellatis v. 
paniculatis 3-6-pollicaribus radiatis v. patento-recurvis simplicibus v. basi 
ramosis densifloris fructiferis erectis, floribus sessilibus secundis, bracteis 
linearibus, petalis linearibus obtusis v. subacutis sepalis ovato-lanceolatis 
obtusis duplo longioribus, glandulis parvis truncatis, ovariis cylindraceo- 
oblongis in stylos subulatos longiusculos attenuatis. 
S. pulchellum, Michx, Fl, Bor, Am., vol. i, p. 277; Torr. et Gr. Fl. N. Am., 
vol. i., p. 559; Walp. Rep., vol. ii., p. 263; A. Gray, Man. Bot, N. U.S., 
p. 172; Gard. Chron,, 1874, ii., p. 552, cum ie. xylog. 
S. pulchellum, DC. Prod., vol. iii., p. 403. 
The Stone-crops form one of the most attractive and 
easily cultivated features of the garden rock-work, and a vast 
number of ornamental species have still to be introduced. 
Upwards of twenty were cultivated at Kew in 1810, and 
described in Aiton’s ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis”; the number now 
grown is about fifty, amongst which that here figured is one of 
the most attractive. It is a native of the mountains of the 
— States, from Virginia to Georgia, growing in rocky 
places. 
The fine specimen here figured was sent by the Rev. Mr. 
Ellacombe from his rich and admirably-named collection at 
Bitton Vicarage, between Bristol and Bath, one of the most 
favoured climates and soils in Britain for a general collection 
of the herbaceous plants of temperate climates, and of which 
advantages its accomplished occupant makes the best use. 
It flowers both at Bitton and Kew in July, and must not be 
confounded (as pointed out by Dr. Masters in the “‘ Gardener's 
Chronicle”) with two plants commonly known in gardens as 
S. pulchellum, namely, S. sezangulare and 8S. Lydium. : 
Descr. Quite glabrous. Stems four to eight inches high, 
APRIL Ist, 1876, 
