Genus 



ORPINE FAMILY. 



I. Rhodiola rosea L. Roseioot. 

 Fig 2133. 



Rosewort. 



Rhodiola rosea L. Sp. PI. 1035. i753- 



Seduni roscinn Scop. FI. Cam. Ed. 2, 326. 1772. 



Sedtim Rhodiola DC. Plantes Gras. pi. 143- 1805. 



Perennial, branched at the base, or simple, erect or ascend- 

 ing, glabrous and somewhat glaucous, 4-12' high. Leaves 

 sessile, oval or slightly obovate, acute or obtuse at the apex, 

 narrowed or rounded at the base, dentate or entire, 6"-i2" 

 long, 3"-s" wide, the lower ones smaller; cyme terminal, 

 dense, -2' broad; flowers dioecious, yellowish-green or 

 purplish, 2J"-4" broad; sepals oblong, narrower and shorter 

 than the petals; staminate flowers with 8 (rarely 10) stamens, 

 the pistillate ones with 4 (rarely 5) carpels; follicles purple, 

 about 2" long, only their tips spreading. 



In rocky places, Labrador and arctic America to Maine and Ver- 

 mont ; Chittenango Falls, New York ; cliffs' on the Delaware River 

 in eastern Pennsylvania. Northern and alpine Europe and Asia. 

 Root rose-scented. Snowdon rose. May-July. 



3. SEDUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 430. 1753. 

 Fleshy mostly glabrous herbs, erect or decumbent, mauily with alternate, often imbricated, 

 entire or dentate leaves, and perfect flowers in terminal often i-sided cymes. Calyx 4-S-lobed. 

 Petals 4-5, distinct. Stamens 8-10, perigynous, the alternate ones usually attached to the 

 petals. Filaments filiform or subulate. Scales of the receptacle entire or emarginate. Car- 

 pels 4-5, distinct, or united at the base, spreading; styles usually short; ovules 00. Follicles 

 many-seeeded or few-seeded. [Latin, to sit, from the lowly habit of these plants.] 



About 200 species, mostly natives of temperate and cold regions of the northern hemisphere, 

 but many in the mountains of Mexico and a few in the Andes of South America. Besides the fol- 

 lowing, about 15 others occur in the western parts of North America. Type species: Scdiim 

 Telcphium L. 

 Cyme regular, compound, the flowers not secund ; leaves broad, flat. 



Petals purple ; plant somewhat glaucous ; petals twice as long as sepals. i. 



Petals pink ; plant very glaucous ; petals 3-4 times as long as the sepals. 2. 



Flowers secund along the branches of the cyme. 

 Petals yellow. 



Leaves short, thick, ovate, densely imbricated. 3. 



Leaves linear or terete, scattered on the stems. 



Annual ; petals little longer than the sepals. 4. 



Perennial ; petals twice as long as the sepals. 



Plant 3'-6' high ; native, western. 5. 



Plant 8'- 1 2' high ; introduced in a few places. 6, 



Petals purple or white. 



Leaves terete ; petals purple, pink, or white. 

 Leaves flat, spatulate or obovate ; petals white. 



Lower leaves verticillate in 3's. 8. .S". ternatum. 



Leaves all alternate. 9- S'. Nevii. 



S. trifhyllum. 

 S. tclcfhioides. 



S. acre. 



S, NuttalUanuin. 



S. stenopetalum. 

 S. reflexiiui. 



7. S, pulchellum. 



I. Sedum triphyllum (Haw.) S. F. Gray. Orpine. 

 Live- forever. Fig. 2134. 



Anacampscros triphylla Haw. Syn. PI. Succ. in. 1812. 

 Sedum Inthylliim S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PL 2: 510. 1821. 

 Sedum Fabaria Koch, Syn. PI. Germ. 25S. 1837. 

 S. furpureum Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. I: 437. 1821. 



Perennial, stems erect, stout, simple, tufted, glabrous and 

 slightly glaucous, i-ii high. Leaves alternate, ovate, 

 broadly oval or obovate, obtuse, i'-2' long, coarsely dentate, 

 the upper sessile and rounded at the base, the lower larger, 

 narrowed at the base or sometimes petioled ; cyme- dense, 

 regular, compound, 2-3' broad ; flowers perfect, 2i"-4" broad, 

 S-parted ; petals purple, twice as long as the ovate acute 

 sepals; stamens 10; follicles about 2" long, tipped with a 

 short style. 



In fields and along roadsides. Quebec to Ontario, south to Mary- 

 land and Michigan. Naturalized from Europe and native of_ west- 

 ern .Asia. Blooms sparingly, but spreads freely by its joints. 

 Garden-orpine. Evergreen. Everlasting. Bog-leaves. Life-of- 

 man. Frog's-mouth or -bladder. Leeks. Frog-plant. Witches'- 

 money-bags. Live-long. Aaron's rod. Midsummer-men. Illus- 

 trated in our first edition as 5. Telephium L. June-Sept. 



