8 Dr. Smırn’s Remarks on the Sedum ochroleucum. 
common species in various parts of the continent of Greece, as 
well as in almost all the Greek islands, growing on rocks and 
walls near the sea-side. At Athens it is pounded and applied as 
a cooling cataplasm to bruises or to gouty limbs, being called 
Koaaweide by the Athenians of the present day. Its most general 
names however in modern Greek are Awaguryro and Zrapuraxı. 
The three species of Aswo or Sempervivum in Dioscorides 
seem to have been misunderstood. The Ist, A&Ze» vo meya, hi- 
therto taken by Matthiolus and others for the Common House- 
leek, Sempervivum tectorum, is justly referred by Dr. Sibthorp, 
as well as Clusius, to Sempervidum arboreum, with which the de- 
scription of Dioscorides, more full than usual, most admirably 
agrees, and not at all with the tectorum. The 2d, Asılwov ro 
paxgoy, or Sempervivum minus, was taken by Matthiolus for Sedum 
„album, and by Dr. Sibthorp, not without much doubt, for Sem- 
pervivum hirtum; but I have no scruple at all in referring it to 
my present Sedum ochroleucum, a plant probably not known to 
Matthiolus. Dioscorides says “ it grows on walls, stones and 
* banks, as well as about sbady enclosures. Several slender 
“stems,” he adds, “spring from one root, thickly encompassed 
* with little round succulent sharp-pointed leaves. It throws 
* out, moreover, a stem towards the middle, about a span high, 
* with an umbel of slender (greenish or) pale yellowish flowers. 
* Its leaves have the same virtues with the former."—'The virtues 
alluded to of * the former," or Sempervivum arboreum, are cool- 
ing and astringent; whence Dioscorides recommends that plant 
in infammatory eruptions and the gout, for which the Sedum 
ochroleucum is used at present, as mentioned above. 
The 3d, AsıZwov treo, which is described as * heating, acrid 
* and exulcerating, with very small thick leaves," seems to be 
Sedum acre, as Matthiolus and Clusius judged, though Dr. Sib-’ 
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