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crenate, obtuse, 2 cm. long or less, short-petioled or the upper sessile ; branches of the 

 cyme rather loosely flowered ; flowers nearly sessile ; sepals linear-oblong, acutish ; petals 

 lanceolate, acute, about 1 cm. long, pale rose-colored, twice as long as the calyx. 



Type locality : Caucasus. 



Distribution : Cumberlandj Maine ; near Digby, Nova Scotia. Native of the Orient. 



Illustration : Gmel. loc. cit. pi, 35, f. 2. 



68. Sedum Fabaria Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. & Helv. 258. 1837. 



Sedum Telephium Terr. Fl. N. Y. 1 : 253. 1843. Not S. Telephium \,. 1753. 



Perennial; stems stout, tufted, glabrous and slightly glaucous, 3-5 dm. high. Leaves 

 alternate, ovate to obovate, obtuse, 2-5 cm. long, coarsely dentate, the upper sessile, the 

 lower larger ; cyme dense, compound, 5-8 cm. broad ; flowers 5-8 mm. broad ; petals purple, 

 twice as long as the ovate acute sepals ; follicles about 4 mm. long, tipped with a short style. 



Type locality : Babia Gora, Sudetic mountains. 



Distribution: In fields and along roads, Quebec and Ontario to Maryland and Michigan. 

 Naturalized from Europe. 



Illustrations: Fl. Deutsch. ed. 5, pi. 2641; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl./. 1811, as 5. Telephium. 



69. Sedum telephioides Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 277. 1803. 



Anacampseros lelephioides Haw. Syn. PI. Succ.'112. 1812. 



Similar to the preceding, but more slender, seldom over 2.5 dm. high, glaucous and 

 purplish. Leaves oval or obovate, obtuse, coarsely dentate or entire, 2-5 cm. long, nar- 

 rowed at the base; cyme dense, 5-10 cm. broad; flowers 6-8 mm. broad; petals pale-pink, 

 much longer than the lanceolate sepals ; follicles about 4 mm. long, tipped with a slender 



style. 



Type locality : On high cliffs, North America. 



Distribution ; On dry rocks, southern Pennsylvania to western New York, southern Indiana, 

 North Carolina and Georgia. 



Illustration ; Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl./. 1812. 



70. Sedum Havardi Rose, sp. nov. 



Closely resembling S. tuberculatum and S. retusum, but apparently not shrubby, low 

 and much branched at base. Stems covered with red tubercles ; leaves flattened, 4-5 mm. 

 long, obtuse ; flowers few, clustered near the tops of the branches, sessile or nearly so ; 

 calyx very small, about 1 mm. long ; petals narrow, 4 mm. long ; carpels widely spreading. 



Described from scanty material collected by V. Havard at foot of cliffs, Chicos Mountains, 

 western Texas, August, 1883 {no. 132). 



Excluded and doubtful species 



Sedum Meehani A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 16 : 105. 1880. This plant, described as 

 from Utah, is S. hispanicum Iv., a European species. 



Sedum miserum Lindl. Bot. Reg. 24 : Misc. 65. 1838. Said to have been raised from 

 Mexican seed ; unknown to us. 



