( 1809 ) 

 Sempervivum villosum. Hairy Houseleek. 



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C/#ss and Order. 



DoDECANDRIA DoDECAGYNIA. 



Generic Character, 



Cal. 8— 12-partitus. Petala 8—12. Caps. 8—12, poly- 

 spermy. 



Specific Character and Synonyin. 



Sempervivum villosum; foliis spathulato-cuneiformibus ob- 

 tusis villosis, nectariis palmatis : lacinulis subulatis. Ait 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. 2. p. 148. edit. alt. 3. p. 171. Willd. 

 Sp. PL 2. p. 933. 



Sempervivum stellatum ; caule herbaceo pubescente, foliis 

 spatbulatis sparsis. Trans. Linn. Soc. l.p.2ol. excluso 

 synonimo Seguieri ? 



We have no doubt but that the plant here figured is the 

 Sempervivum villosum of the first edition of Aiton's Hortus 

 Kewensis ; having' compared it both with specimens from the 

 Kew Garden and a native one from Madeira. At the same 

 time we suspect that it is also the same plant which Sir 

 James E. Smith described in the first volume of the Trans- 

 actions of the Linnean Society , under the name of stellatum. 

 Our plant was some years since very common in the Chelsea 

 Garden, and in that of the late Dr. Pitcairn, at Islington ; 

 and, being an annual producing seeds readily, might be 

 cultivated as hardy. Certainly the plant figured by Seguier 

 as a native of Monte Baldo, appears to be very different, 

 both from our plant and from Sir James Smith's description. 



An annual plant. Native of the Island of Madeira. Flowers 

 in the middle of summer, and ripens its seeds in August. 

 Communicated by Mr, Pringle, of the Sydenham Nursery. 



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