316 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Sedum. 



tapering into a short spreading style. Stigmas bluntish. 

 Caps. 5, compressed, pointed, spreading, notched towards 

 the base, bursting along the inner margin. Seeds nume- 

 rous, minute, arranged along the inner margin, at each 

 side. 

 Herbs with alternate, very succulent, either flat, cylindrical, 

 or tumid, leaves. Root mostly perennial. Fl. yellow, 

 white or reddish, usually cymose, rarely axillary. 



* Leaves Jlat. 



1 . S. Telephium. Orpine, or Live-long. 

 Leaves flattish, serrated. Corymb leafy. Stem erect. 



S. Telephium. Z,m«. 5/). P/. 616. Prilld.v.2.760. Fl. Br. 485. 



Engl. Bot. V. 19. t. 1319. Curt. Lond. fasc. 3. t.25. Hook. 



Scot. 139. Fl. Dan. t. 686. Bull. Fr. t.2A9. 

 S. n. 954. Hall. Hist. v.\. AW. 

 Anacampseros, vulg6 Faba crassa. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 681./. 



Raii Sijn. 269. 

 Telephium vulgare. Bauh. Pin. 287. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 66./. 

 T, album. Fuchs. Hist. 800./.; and pm-purascens. Ibid.SO\.f. 

 Telephium. Camer. Epit.4l2.f. 

 Fabaria. Matth. Valgr. v. 1 , 583./ 

 Crassula sive Faba inversa. Ger. Em. 518./ 

 Scrophularia media. Brunf. Herb. 215./ 214. 

 In the borders of fields, hedges, and bushy places, on a gravelly 



or chalky soil. 

 Perennial. August. 

 Root of several oblong, tapering, white knobs. Herb smooth. 



Stems 2 feet high, erect, simple, leafy, round, spotted with red. 



Leaves scattered, sessile, ovate, spreading, fleshy, more or less 



bluntly toothed or serrated, with a stout mid-rib. Fl. crimson, 



rarely white, in dense, corymbose, terminal or partly axillary, 



tufts, interspersed with fleshy toothed bracteas. 

 Haller's n. 955 was thought by Mr. Davall to be the same species 



with this ; and the Telephium hispanicum of Clusius, quoted for 



it, is esteemed, by most authors, a variety of our common kind. 



We have however nothing in Britain exactly answering to the 



figure of Clusius, Hisp. 331 ; repeated in his Hisloria v. 2. 66. 



f. 1 J and in Ger. Em. 518./ 1 ; copied in Bauhin's Hist. v. 3. 



p. 2. 682, Anacampseros maxima. The flowers are said to be 



pale yellow. 



* * Leaves tumid, or some'what cylindrical. 



2. S. dasyphyltum. Thick-leaved White Stonecrop. 



Leaves ovate, obtuse, fleshy, sessile ; the lower ones oppo- 

 site. Stems flaccid. Panicle? glutinous. 



