2.Ssedum L. Stonecrop. 
Annual or perennial succulent herbs with alternate and basal leaves. 
Flowers showy in terminal cymes, perfect, 4-5-merous.e Sepals distinct or 
lightly wnited. Petals distinct, yellow. YFollicles distinct or wnited 
at the base, spreading or erect. 
Leaves linear, 1-2 cm. long 
2 Leaves plump, obtuse, not scarious and expanded 
i a ete the base; flowers clear yellow; follicles 
erect at maturity }. Se stenopetalum 
p Leaves flattened, acute, scarious and expanded 
ot? the base; flowers pale yellow; follicles 
rotate-at maturity 2. Se Douglasii 
@ O Leaves ovate, 5-6 mn. long 3 Se acre 
Sn, 
Gas 3. stenopetalwa Pursh. fFerennials with short, fleshy rootstocks 
apparently propagating by offsets which form the flowering shoots of the 
following year; annual stems 10-20 cm. tall, branching, tufted; leaves about 
lcm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, pale green or reddish, terete or nearly so, 
plump and rounded, appearing mealy, obtuse, loosely articulated at the base, 
the margin prolonged beyond the articulation, those on the sterile shoots 
densely imbricated, forming globose clusters, those on the flowering shoots 
erect, soon withering and falling away; flowers clear orange -yell ow ane reuse 
i . by sseyals subulate, ©.5 mm. long; 
petals narrowly lanceolate, carinate, mucronate, spreading, 8-10 um. long; 4 
stamens equal to tne styles, erect; follicles 7 mm. long, erect in fruit, the ; 
styles spreading, 5 mm. long. 
Infrequent in our region, apparently only alpine. > 
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not —-> Fish Lake, 6500 ft.; seen at Kevett Lake, 6000 ft.; Snowy Top Mt., 
(ji 6000 ft.; ridges north from Carbon, 4500 ftes; Bearskull Mt, 6000 ft., i 
Continental it. : 
