Part 1, 1905] CRASSULACEAB 



6. Sedum cupressoides Hemsl. Diag. PL Nov. 1 : 11. 1878. 



Perennial, suffruticose, procumbent, much branched. Flowering branches erect, very 

 slender ; leaves small, 2 mm. long, thic^, ovate, terete, densely appressed, imbricated, ob- 

 tuse ; flowers sessile, solitary or 2 or 3 at the tops of branches, yellow (but described as 

 rose-colored); calyx 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse; petals 4-5 mm. long; carpels widely spread- 

 ing in age. 



Type locality : Mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Distribution : Oaxaca. 



Illustration: Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. pi. 21. 



7. Sedum moraaense H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6 : 44. 1823. 



Sedum Liebmannianum Hemsl. Diag. PI. Nov. 1 : 12. 1878. 



Perennial, procumbent, much branched, rooting at the nodes. Leaves glabrous, 

 minute, 1-3 mm. long, thick, turgid, obtuse, densely appressed, imbricated ; flowers in 

 short secund racemes or only one or two at the tips of branches ; pedicels very short ; sepals 

 linear-oblong, somewhat unequal, fleshy, produced backward at base; petals reddish, 5 mm, 

 long, lanceolate ; carpels erect, at least at first. 



Type locality : Real del Moran, Hidalgo, Mexico. 

 Distribution : Central Mexico. 



8. Sedum annuum I^. Sp. PL 432. 1753. 



Annual, with fibrous roots, glabrous. Stems tufted, 5-8 cm, high, ascending or erect, 

 branched. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, terete, somewhat flattened above, 2-4 mm. long; 

 flowers subsessile on the branches of the cyme, more or less unilateral, about 1 cm. broad ; 

 calyx-segments oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse ; petals bright-yellow, lanceolate, sharply 

 acute, twice as long as the calyx ; follicles short-tipped. 



Type locality : Northern Burope. 



Distribution : Greenland, northern and central Europe. 



Illustrations : Fl. Deutsch. ed, 5. pi, 2646. 



9. Sedum pulchellum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 277. 1803. 



Sedum linifohum Nutt.; T. & G, Fl. N, Am. 1 : 559, as synon3mi. 1840. 



Glabrous, ascending or trailing, branched, 1-3 dm, long, I^eaves crowded, terete, 

 linear, sessile, obtuse, slightly aturiculate at the base, 6-25 mm; long, about 2 mm. wide ; 

 cyme 4-7-forked, its branches spreading or recurved in flower ; flowers sessile, close together, 

 8-12 mm. broad ; petals linear-lanceolate, acute, about twice the length of the lanceolate 

 obtusish sepals ; follicles 4-6 mm. long, tipped with slender styles. 



Type locality : Rocks about Nashville, Tenn. 



Distribution : On rocks, Virginia to Georgia, Indiana, Missouri and Texas. 



Illustration : Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. /. 1817. 



10. Sedum villosum Iv. Sp. PI. 432. 1753. 



Biennial, glandular-pubescent; stems erect, 8-20 cm. high. Leaves linear to linear- 

 oblong, obtuse," nearly terete, 5-10 mm. long, erect ; C5mie paniculate, small ; pedicels 

 slender, mostly longer than the flowers ; caljrx- segments oblong, obtuse ; petals ovate, acute 

 or acutish, about twice as long as the calyx, rose-red or pink, with a purplish back ; follicles 

 suberect with ascending slender tips. 



Type locality : Wet pastures, Germany, England, France. 



Distribution : Greenland ; Europe. 



Illustrations : DC. PI. Grasses pi. 70; Engl. Bot. pi. 394; Fl. Deutsch. ed. 5. pi. 2644. 



11. Sedum Nuttallianum Raf. Atl. Jour. 1 : 146. 1832. 



Sedum Torreyi Don, Card. Diet. 3: 121. 1834. 



Sedum sparsifiorum Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 559. 1840. 



Annual, pale-green, low, tufted, glabrous,, 5-8 cm. high. Leaves alternate, linear- 

 oblong, teretish, obtuse, sessile, entire, 4-15 mm. long; cyme 2-5 forked, its branches 



