Tap. 8503. 
SEDUM prtosum. 
Caucasus and Armenia. 
CRASSULACEAE. 
Sepum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659. 
Sedum pilosum, Bieb. Fl. Tuur.-Cauc. vol. i. p. 352, et Cent, Plant. Rar. t. 40; 
DC. Prodr. vol. iii. p. 406; Boiss. F7. Orient. vol. ii. p.786; Irving in Gard. 
Chron. 1911, vol. xlix. p. 317, fig. 16; affinis S. sempervivoidi, Fisch., sed 
foliis multo angustioribus oblongis vel oblanceolatis et petalis obtusis vel 
subacutis (nec longe acutis) pulchre roseis facile distinguitur. 
Herba succulenta, 5-7 em. alta, glanduloso-pubescens. Folia 5-10 mm. longa, 
2-5 mm. lata, oblonga vel oblanceolato-oblonga, obtusa ; radicalia dense 
rosulata; caulina alterna, sublaxa vel conferta, patula. Flores in cymam 
corymbosam 2-4 cm. diametro conferti. Pedicelli 2-5 mm, longi. Sepala 
erecta, 3°5-4 mm. longa, 1°5-1:75 mm. lata, oblonga, subacuta vel obtusa. 
Petala erecta, apice recurva, 6-7 mm. longa, 2-5-3 mm. lata, elliptico- 
lanceolata, obtusa vel subacuta, basi in unguem latum angustata, glabra, 
pulchre rosea. Stumina 8-4 mm. longa, glabra ; antherae rubrae. 
Carpella 4 mm. longa, inferne compresso-ovoidea, superne in stylum 1 mm. 
longum attenuata.—Umbilicus pubescens, Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. ii. p. 175. 
Cotyledon pubescens, C. A. Mey. Verzeich. Pflanz, Cauc. p. 150.— 
N. E. Brown. 
The pleasing little biennial Stonecrop which forms the 
subject of our figure is one of the most charming members 
of its genus, from all others of which it is readily distinguished 
by its beautiful rosy flowers. In Sedum sempervivoudes, 
Fisch., which has already Leen figured at t. 2474 of this 
work, and to which S. piloswm is most nearly allied, the 
flowers are deep red, and there are several other species 1n 
which the petals are purple. But except in S. pilosum we 
do not in the genus Sedum find the rich rosy colour which 
the petals of our plant possess. In this regard and in their 
shape and general facies the flowers of S. pilosum bear a 
greater resemblance to those of a Crassula than to those of 
a Sedum, though the number of the stamens and_ the 
disposition of the leaves prove conclusively that it 1s to 
the latter, not the former genus that our. plant must be 
referred. A native of the Caucasus, where it affects exposed 
localities at heights of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet above 
Juty, 1918. 
