( ga). 
* USveocuLnbENT &. ; 
SEDUM ACRE. WALL STONE-CROP, or WALL PEPPER, 
een anneieen meneame! } 
-SYNONYMA. Sedum acre feu minus. Pharm. Murray. v. iit. 
p» 344. Bergius. 375. Ed. New. Difpenf. 281. Sempervivum 
minus vermiculatum acre. Baub. Pin. 28 3. Vermicularis feu 
- Illecebra minor acris. Ger. Emac. 517. Illecebra minor feu fedum 
tertium Diofcoridis. Park. Theat. a 35... Ray. Synop. 270. Sedum 
acre. all. Stirp. Helv. n. 966, Hudfon.Flor. Ang. 171. With. 
Bot. Arr. 467. Ic. Curt. Flor. Lond. so 
Decandria Pentagynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 579. 3 
Gen. Ch. Cal. s-fidus. Cor. s-petala.  Squdmae neGarifere 5, ad 
bafin germinis. Caps. oS ee : 
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Sp. Ch. §&. fol. fubovatis adnato-feffilibus gibbis etectiufculis alternis, 
cymatrifida, ; : 
ROOT perennial, flender, creeping. Stalks feveral together, about 
three inches high, covered-with leaves. Leaves oval, blunt, fhort, 
flefhy, {mooth, numerous, without footftalks, clofely invefting the’ 
{talk, placed in an imbricated order. Flowers yellow, in fubterminal 
trifid cymz. Calyx permanent, divided into five fegments, which 
.are tapering, thick, blunt. Corolla compofed of five pointed petals, 
which are more than twice the fize of the fegments of the calyx. 
Filaments ten, tapering, about the length of the corolla, and fur- 
nifhed with yellow anthere. Germen oblong, yellow, terminating 
in five ftyles, furnithed with fimple ftigmata. Capfules five, pointed, 
containing minute oval brownith feeds, 
This is a common Britith plant, growing on houfes; walls, and 
gravelly banks. Like many other plants of this natural order it 
receives 
