Tas, 5924, 
SEDUM GLANDULOSUM, 
Native of Sardinia. 
Nat. Ord. CrassuLAceazi. 
Genus Sepum, L. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 659). 
Sepum glandulosum ; annuum, humile, glanduloso-pubescens, foliis erecto- 
patentibus sparsis lineari-oblongis obtusis cylindricis facie obscure 
complanatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis axillaribus et in cymas 
breves simplices v. bifidas dispositis purpurascentibus, sepalis late ovatis 
subacutis, petalis ellipticis acutis, filamentis gracilibus, antheris purpu- 
reis, carpellis turgidis, erectis. 
Sepum glandulosum, Moris Stirp. Sard., El. i. p. 203 Flor. Sard., vol. iv. 
p. 121, t. 73, f. 3; Bertoloni Fi. Ital., vol. iv. p. 717. 
It is partly in the hope of reviving a taste for the cultiva- 
tion of a class of plants that were highly deserved favourites 
with our grandfathers, that the Botanical Magazine devotes 
an occasional plate to such a neglected group as the smaller 
European succulents,—a taste that is being most commend- 
ably and energetically encouraged by Mr. W. Robinson, 
whose works on the cultivation of rock, alpine, and hardy 
plants have given a new direction to the energies of those 
lovers of horticulture who have little time, space, or means 
for gardening. Such plants possess all the attractions of 
variety, beauty of form, brightness of colour, rarity (if that 
be one), and curious structure, and afford far more real grati- 
fication to the cultivated amateur and intellectual gardener, 
than can gaudy carpets and hearth-rugs of Geraniums, Calceo- 
larias, and Verbenas scattered over grass lawns, and gay only 
for a few weeks of the year. e : i 
Sedum glandulosum forms a beautiful object in a pot, is of 
easy cultivation, and seeds freely ; it isa very rare and little 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871. 
