318 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Seduni. 



cumbent at the base, round, smooth, leafy, reddish. Leaves 

 crowded, generally alternate, fleshy, smooth, ovate, bluntish, 

 less glaucous, and somewhat less tumid, than in the last, but 

 more essentially distinguished by being elongated at the base, 

 below their attachment to the stem, into a short spur. FL white, 

 speckled with red, with a red rib to each petal; at first crowded ; 

 but afterwards racemose, each cyme having two branches, with 

 an intermediate flower. Stalks and calyx smooth. Capsules 

 membranous. This species, though long unsettled, is found in 

 most parts of Europe, from Sweden to Portugal. 



4. S. ac?'e. Biting Stonecrop. Wall Pepper, 



Leaves alternate, nearly ovate, thick, tumid ; spurred at the 

 base. Cyme of three smooth branches, leafy. 



5. acre. Linn. Sp. P/.619. mild. v. 2. 767. Ft. Br. 487. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 1 2. t. 839. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1 . t. 32. PVoodv. suppl. t.23\. 

 Hook. Scot. 1 40. Bull. Fr. t.3\. Ehrh. PL OJ. 86. FL Dan. 

 t. 14.57. 



S. n.966. HalL Hist. v. 1. 415. 



S. parvum acre, flore luteo. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 694. /. Raii Syn. 

 270. Moris. V. 3. 471. sect. 12. t. 6./. 12. 



S. minus octavum causticum. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 61./. 



Sedi tertium genus. Fuchs.Hisf.36.f. 



Sempervivum minus vermiculatum. Bauh. Pin. 283. 



S. minimum. Corner. Epit. 856. /. good. 



Vermicularis, sive Illecebra minor acris. Ger. Em. 517./. 



On walls, roofs, and dry sandy ground, common. 



Perennial. June. 



Root fibrous, subdivided. Herb smooth, succulent and tender, of 

 a grass green, very hot and pungent to the taste, composing lax 

 wide-spreading tufts. Stems intricate, branched ; the branches 

 leafy, erect, round, 2 or 3 inches high. Leaves im.bricated on 

 the barren branches ; scattered on the flowering ones j obtuse, 

 convex at the back, flattened above, spurred at the base as in the 

 last. FL of a golden yellow, more or less numerous, in three- 

 branched leafy, or bracteated, cymes. Caps, membranous. 



Reported to be useful in scorbutic and scrofulous disorders. See 

 Woodville. 



5. S. sexangulare. Insipid Yellow Stonecrop. 



Leaves in six or seven rows, nearly cylindrical, obtuse, 

 fleshy, spreading; spurred at the base. Cyme of three 

 smooth branches, leafy. 



8. sexangulare. Linn. Sp. PL 620. Willd. v. 2. 767. Fl. Br. 488. 



EngL Bot. V. 28. L 1946. Curt. Lond. fasc. 4. L 33. Ehrh. 



Herb. 16. 

 S. acre p. Huds. 196. 



