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be satisfactorily determined from descriptions in any of the current 
manuals, so living material was sent to the Gray Herbarium, where 
Mr. E. W. Sinott kindly determined the plant as Sedum anophyl- 
lum DC., a species native to Southern and Southeastern Europe. 
Mr. Sinott also stated that, as far as could be learned, the species 
had never been reported before from North America as an escape, 
the only American material in the Gray Herbarium being two sheets 
collected from cultivated specimens by Geo. Thurber. 
Upon further inquiry at South Bristol it appeared that the plant 
had been known in its present locality for eight or ten years, but had 
originally come from the garden of Mrs. Stephen Farrar, who, as my 
informant supposed, had brought a few roots from a garden in North 
Anson, Maine. Upon the destruction of Mrs. Farrar’s garden, the 
plants were thrown out with other waste upon a ledgy lot between two 
roads, without further care. The Sedum, characteristically refusing 
to die, is now scattered over a space of about one and a half acres, 
growing in the crevices and along the borders of a dry, sloping ledge, 
and is apparently slowly spreading along the roadsides. 
Specimens gathered in August have been deposited in the Gray 
Herbarium, in that of the New England Botanical Club, and in the 
Herbarium of the Brooklyn Institute Museum. Living specimens 
are also growing in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
The species is not listed by L. H. Bailey in the Cyclopedia of Ameri- 
can Horticulture among those commonly cultivated, nor is it described 
in any of the texts usually accessible. Hence the following descrip- 
tion may prove of service. A perennial herb; stems slightly woody, 
rooting at the decumbent base, but soon erect, 1-3 dm. high. Leaves 
oblong-cylindrical, fleshy, and cuspidate, closely imbricate and erect 
upon the sterile stems, more remote upon the flowering ones. Flowers 
about the size of those of Sedum acre L., yellow, sessile or nearly so, 
in crowded, terminal, subscorpioid cymes. Sepals lanceolate and 
acute, about half the length of the erect, linear, acute petals. Fol- 
licles erect, lanceolate-acuminate. 
A more complete description, with keys, will be found in the Flore 
de France by G. Rouy and E.-G. Camus, Vol. vii. p. 107., and in the 
Conspectus Florae Graecae by E. de Halácsy, Vol. i. p. 586.— EDWARD 
B. CHAMBERLAIN, New York City. 
Vol. 14, no. 166, including pages 193 to 208, was issued 18 November, 1912. 
