C 1457 ] 



Sempervivum soboliferum. Hen and 

 Chicken House-leek. 



Clafs and Order. 



DODECANDRIA DoDECAGYNIA. 



Generic Charafter, 

 Cal. 12-partitus. Pet. 12. Cap/. 12, polyfpermae. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



SEMPERVIVUM foboliferum g propaginibus globofis deci- 



dentibus, petalis fenis ereftis fimbriatis, foliis caulinis lan- 



ceolato-ovatis imbricatis. 

 SEMPERVIVUM petalis fimbriatis, fobole compa&a. Schmid. 



Ic. 95. t, 26. 

 SEDUM majus vulgari fimile, globulis decidentibus. Morif. 



Hifl. 3. p. 472. f. 12. /. 7. /. 18. quoad defcriptionem, 



figura vero vix quadrat. 

 SEDUM vel SEMPERVIVUM majus foliis acutis, floribus 



albis. Weinm. Phyt. 4. /. 913. 



In the Enumeration of the plants contained in the firft twenty 

 volumes of this work, publifhed with the general indexes, we 

 acknowledged the receipt of a letter from Mr. Jonathan 

 Wilson, of Congleton, in which the writer ftates that our 

 figure of Sempervivum globiferum, No. 507, does not belong 

 to the Sedum majus globulis decidentibus of Mori son ; which 

 obfervation we found to be quite correct. The fa6t is, that 

 Linn^us confounded two diftinct. fpecies under the name of 

 globiferum t which miftake has been continued by moft or all 

 Botanifts fince ; although the one has almoft conftantly fix, 

 the other twelve petals, with double the number of filaments, 

 and both are in almoft every other refpeci unlike. 



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