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I]. Remarks on the Sedum ochroleucum, or Ass vo waxpo» of 
Dioscorides ; in a Letter to exander Mac Leay, Esq. Sec. Linn. 
Soc. By James Edward S, ith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 
Read November 1, 1808. — 
Dear Sin, 
I sze leave through your hands to welcome my brethren of the 
Linnean Society on their first . -meeting for. the. ensuing season, 
and to communicate at the same time an article of. botanical 
intelligence rather interesting to those who are solicitous about 
natural genera, as well as to those. who have endeavoured to 
ascertain the plants of ancient Greek authors. 
Jacquin in his Hortus Vindobonensis, v. 1. 35. t. .81, has de- 
scribed and figured a plant by the name of Sempervivum sedi- 
forme, which subsequent compilers of botanic systems have im- 
plicitly adopted by that name. It has even found its way into 
the Hortus Kewensis, v. 2. 149, being far from uncommon in the 
English gardens, where it flowers copiously every summer in the 
open ground. The excellent author above mentioned remarks, 
that “the appearance of its leaves" (he might have. said its — 
whole habit) “is that of a Sedum,” but that “the flower has 
“exactly the character of a Sempervivum, the petals being 6 or 
“7, with broad bases, and an equal number in the parts of 
* the calyx, as well as the germens, and double the number of 
“stamens.” He also asserts that “there are no nectariferous 
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