CRASSULACE.^. 148 PENTHORUM. 



3. S. Anaca'mpseros. 



Leaves wedge-shaped, alternate at base, subsessile ; stems decumbent ; floic- 

 ers in corymbose cymes. Native of France, growing there in the crevices of 

 rocks Root fibrous. Stems reddish and decumbent at base, erect and glau- 

 cous above. Leaves fleshy, of a bluish green. Flowers purple, in leafy, ter- 

 jninal tufts. July. Cultivated. Per. Evergreen Stvne-crop. 



4. S. tele'phium. 



Lcnvrs Cattish, serrate, scattered; root tuberous, fleshy, white ; sf cms two 

 feei high, erect; corymbose cij7ne leafy. Native of Europe. Cultivated. Stems 

 simple, leafy, round, smooth, purplish. Leaves sessile, ovate, fleshy, tooth- 

 serrate. Flowers purple 01 white, in dense, terminal, leafy tufts. Aug. Per. 

 This plant much resembles S. lelephoidcs. Covimon Orpine. Live-forever. 



3. SEMPERVI'VUM. 



Caljx of 12 united sepals; corolla of 12 petals; capsules 

 12, manj-seeded. 



Lat. semper vivere, to live forever; in allusion to the tenacity of life which 

 distinguishes these plants. Succulent herbs or shrubs, all exotic, some of 

 which are ornamental. 



1. S. arbo'reum. 



Stem arborescent, smooth, branched ; leaves cuniform, smoothish, bordered 

 with soft, spreading ciliae. A carious and ornamental plant, from the Levant. 

 Stem very thick and fleshy, branching into a tree-like form, 8 — 10 feet high. 

 Flowers yellow. Evergreen. Tree House-leek. 



2. S. tecto'rum. 



ieares ciliate ; bulbs spreading; nectaries cuniform, crenulate. Native of 

 Britain. This plant is remarkable for the anthers bearing ovules instead of 

 pollen. Lindley. Common House-leek. 



3. S. tabul^fo'rme. 



Leaves closely packed together in a broad, flat disk. Native of Teneriffe. 



Tabular House-leek, 



Tribe II, DIAMORPHE^. Carpels united. 



A. PENTHO'RUM. 



Calyx of 5 sepals united at base; petals 5 or 0; stamen>s 

 10; capsules of 5 united carpels, 5-angled, 5-celled and 5- 

 pointed. 



Gr. Tcivn, five ; on account of the 5-marked angles of the capsule. — An 

 erect, perennial herb, of little beauty. 



P. SEDOI'DES. # 



Stem, branched, angular above ; leaves nearly sessile, unequally serrate, lan- 

 ceolate ; cyme of panicled, simple, secund spikes. The only American species 

 of the genus. A hardy perennial, of moist situations. Stem a foot or more 

 in hight, its][|opposile angles fringed with minute hairs slightly branched. 



