Bryophyllum. LXIV. CRASSULACE^. 277 



10 ; carpels 4 — 5, distinct, many-seeded, with an entire scale at the 

 base of each. — Mosili/ licrbiccous. Injlorescence cymose. Fls. mostly 

 pcntamerous. 



1. S. TELEPiiioiDEs. Michx. 



Lvs. broadly lanceolate, attenuate at base, subdentate, smooth ; cyvies 

 dense, corymbose; sta. 10, the petals, sepals and carpels in 5s. — Found on rocks, 

 lake and river shores, N. Y., N. J., Harper's Ferry, Va. ! &c. Stem a foot 

 high. Leaves 1 — 2' lonp:, | as wide. Flowers numerous, purple, in a terminal, 

 branching; cyme. Jn.— Aui(. — Like the other species, very tenacious of lile. 

 My specimens, j,'athered several months since at Harper's Ferry, are still grow- 

 ing in the dry papers. 



2. S. TERNATUM. Michx. Stonc-crop. 



Lvs. ternately verticillate, obovate, flat, smooth, entire, the upper ones 

 scattered, sessile, lanceolate ; cmrie in about 3 spikes ; /s. secund, the central 

 one with 10 stamens, the rest with only 8. — % In Can. West, Penn. the South- 

 ern and Western States, Plummcr I Cultivated in N. Eng. Stems 3 — 8' long, 

 branching and decumbent at base, assurgent above. Cyme with the 3 branches 

 spreading and recurved, the white flowers loosely arranged on their upper side. 

 Jl. Aug. t 



3. S. Telefhium. Common Orpine. Lire-forever. — Rt. tuberous, fleshy, 

 white; st. 1 or 2f high, erect; lvs. flattish, ovate, obtuse, serrate, .scattered; 

 ci/mc corymbose, leafy. — % From Europe. Cultivated and nearly naturalized. 

 Stems simple, leafy, round, smooth, purplish. Leaves sessile, fleshy. Flowers 

 white and purple, in dense, terminal, lealy tufts. Aug. f 



4. S. Anacampseros. Evergreen Stone-crop. — Rt. fibrous; st. decumbent; 

 lvs. cuneiform, attenuate at base ; cymes corymbose, leafy. — 1L Native of Eu- 

 rope, growing there in crevices of rocks. Stems reddi-sh and decumbent at 

 base, erect and glaucous above, Lvs, fleshy, bluish green, Fls. purple, Jl, •\ 



5. S. ACRE. English Moss. Wall Pepper. — Procumbent, spreading, branch- 

 ing from the base;"Zrs. very small, somewhat ovate, fleshy, crowded, alternate, 

 closely sessile, obtuse, nearly erect; cyme few-flowered, trifid, leafy. — From 

 Great Britain, In cultivation it spreads rapidly on walls, borders of flower- 

 beds, &c, densely covering the surface. Flowers yellow. The whole plant 

 abounds in an acrid, biting juice, f 



3. SEMPERVIVUM, 



Lat. semper vivere, to live forever; in allusion to theirtenacity of life. 



Sepals 6 — 20, slightly cohering at base ; petals as many as sepals, 

 acuminate ; stamens twice as many as petals ; hypogynous scales la- 

 cerated ; carpels as many as the petals. — % Herbaceous plants or 

 shrubs, propagated by axillary offsets. Lvs. thick., fieshy. 



\. S. Tectorum, Ho^ise-lcek. — Z/rs. fringed ; o^st'/s spreading. — A well known 

 plant of the gardens, with thick, flesh}^, mucilaginous leaves. It sends out 

 runners with ofisets, rarely flowering. It is so succulent and hardy that it will 

 grow on dry walls, and on the roofs of houses (tectorum). It is sometimes 

 placed in the borders of flower-beds. 



2. S. ARBOREUM. Tree Honse-leek. — St. arborescent, smooth, branched ; lvs. 

 cuneiform, smoothish, bordered with soft, spreading ciliae. — A curious and or- 

 namental evergreen, from the Levant. Stem very thick and fleshy, branching 

 into a tree-like form, 8 — lOf high (1 — 3f in pots). Fls, yellow, rarely appearing. 



4, BRYOPHYLLUM. Salisb, 

 Ch". 3pvo), to grow, (pvWov, a leaf; i. e. germinating frona a leaf. 



Calyx inflated, 4-cleft scarcely to the middle ; corolla monopeta- 

 lous, the tube long and cylindrical, 4-sided and obtuse at base ; limb 

 in 4, triangular, acute lobes ; seeds many. — An evergreen, fleshy. 



