138 ORPINK FAMILY. 



3. SEDUM. Sepals, narrow petals, and pistils 4 or 5; the stamens twice as many, 



the alternate ones commonly adhering to the base of each petal. 



4. TILL^EA. Sepal.-, petals, stamens, and few-seeded pistils 3 or 4. Very small 



annual-, with axillary flowers. 



6. CRASSULA. Sepal- <>r lobe.- of the calyx, petals, stamens, and many-seeded 

 pi-til- '>. Perennial herbs or fleshy-sh'rubby plant-, with flowers in cymes 

 or clusters. 



* * Petals united by their edyes below, and bearing the sl<imcn$. 

 -<- Calyx 5-cleft or o-parted : pistils 5. 



6. ROCIIKA. Corolla salver-form, longer than the calyx. Stamens 5. 



7. COTYLEDON. Corolla urn-shaped, bell-shaped, or cylindrical, sometimes 



5-angled. Stamens 10. 



*- -t- Calyx and corolla both 4-lobed at summit : pistils 4. 



8. BRYOPHYLLUM. Calyx inflated; the lobes of the corolla at length projecting 



and spreading. Stamens 8, projecting. Leaves opposite, petioled, simple or 

 odd-pinnate, crenate. 



1. PENTHORTJM, DITCH STONE-CROP. (Name from the Greek, 



apparently alluding to the parts of the flower being in fives.) ^ 



P. sedoides. Wet places, especially by roadsides : a homely weed, about 

 1 high, with alternate lanceolate and serrate leaves, and yellowi-h-gnvn incon- 

 spicuous flowers loosely spiked on one side of the branches of an open cyme, all 

 .summer and autumn. 



2. SEMPERVIVUM, HOUSELEEE. (Latin for lirc-far-ever.) 2/ 



S. tect6rum, COMMON- or ROOF HOUSELEKK, the plant in Europe 

 usually grown upon roofs of houses : propagating abundantly by offsets on 

 short and thick runners ; leaves of the dense clusters oval or obovate, smooth 

 except the margins, mucronate ; those on the flowering stem- scattered, oblong, 

 clammy-pubescent, as well as the clustered purpli.-h or greenish (lower- ; sepals, 

 petals, and pods mostly 12. Cult, in country gardens, and on walls, roofs, &c. : 

 rarely flowering, in summer. 



3. SEDUM, STONE-CROP, ORPINE. (Old name, from W,Y,, to sit, 

 i. e. upon rocks, walls, &e.. upon which these plants often flourish, with little 

 or no soil.) The following are all smooth perennials, and hardv N. except 

 the first species. 



1. Leaves flat and lirimil, lil<mq, olxtvate, or roundal, 



* The lower ones at least ir/iar/n/ in threes. 

 S. Sieboldii, SIBBOLD'S S. Cult, from Japan, mostly in pots; with 



slender and weak or spreading stem-, glaucous and mostly reddish-tinged round 

 and often concave leaves (!' or lc-- long), with a wedge-shaped base and waw- 

 toothed margin, all in whorls up to the cyme of rosv-purplc flowers, which all 

 have their parts in fives. 



S. ternatum, THREE-I.EAVKD S. Wild in rocky woods from Penn. S. 

 & W., and common in gardens; with spreading steins creeping at base and 

 rising 3' - 6' when they blossom ; the lower leaves wedge-obovatc ; ,iid whorled ; 

 the upper oblong and mostly scattered, about ;V' long; flowers white, the first 

 or central one with parts generally in lives, the others sessile along the upper 

 side of the usually .'* spreading branches and mostly with their parts in fours; 

 in late spring. 



* * All or most of the //),.- utli runt, : jlu;rs in a corymb-like terminal cyme, 



/ntr]>l( r fiurjilish, in siiiitiwr, nil irith tlitir jmrts in lir, *. 



S. Teldphium, GARDEN OUIMXE or LIVE-FOR-EVER. Cult, from Eu. 

 in old country gardens : erect, about 2 high, with oval and mostly wavy- 

 toothed pale and thick leaves, small and dull-colored tlov>er- in a compound 

 cyme, and short-pointed pods. 



S. telephioides, WILD 0. or L. Dry rocks on mountains, chiefly along 

 the Alleghanies ; 6' -12' high, very like the lost, but with fewer flowers, and 

 pods tapering into a slender t styla. 





