DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Sedum. 321 



tangled, lower part of the stems, which are a foot high, round, 

 leafy, with several short, densely leafy, barren shoots from the 

 bottom. Leaves thick, of a dull green, often brownish, scarcely 

 glaucous, tapering to a bristly tip ; their base having a short 

 spur below their point of attachment, as in some of the preced- 

 ing J but that character does not serve for a natural division of 

 the genus. Fl. bright yellow, numerous, in a dense, terminal, 

 more or less level-topped cyme, whose branches and stalks are 

 smooth ; the outermost frequently recurved. Segments of the 

 calyx ovate, bluntly pointed, scarcely half so long as the lanceo- 

 late rather obtuse petals. The lower leaves are often recurved, 

 in consequence of the pendulous posture of the stems or branches, 

 but the specific name seems to have originated from the gene- 

 rally reflexed position oi ihejlower-stalks, expressed by the term 

 scorpioides. The number of the several parts of the^oi/;er often 

 exceeds what is proper to this genus, but hardly approaches its 

 natural ally Sempervivum. 



9. S. glaucum. Glaucous Yellow Stonecrop. 



Leaves glaucous, awl-shaped, scattered; spurred at the 

 base ; those of the branches thread-shaped. Flowers 

 cymose. Segments of the calyx lanceolate. 



S. glaucum. Bonn Cant. ed. 5. 112. Engl. Bot. v. 35. t. 2477. 

 Comp. 7 1 . 



S. reflexum. Fl. Dan. t. 113. 



S. reflexum /3. FL Br. 490. 



S. minus luteum, folio acuto. Bauh. Pin. 283. 



S. minus hgematoides. Ger.Em.b\2.f. RaiiS?jn.269.ed.2.\52. 



Aizoon hsematoides. Lob. Ic. 378./. 



A. minus. Dalech. Hist. 1129./. 



Common Yellow Sengreen. Pet. H. Brit. t. 42./ 5. 



On barren sandy ground, or on walls 3 very common according 

 to Ray. 



On the sides of some rough hills, near Mildenhall, Suffolk. Mr.F. 

 K. Eagle. 



Perennial. July, August. 



Differs from the last in being of a more glaucous hue, with much 

 more slender leaves, especially on the radical shoots. The 

 branches of the cyme are more uniformly spreading, and the 

 segments of the calyx narrower and more pointed. 



It is extremely difficult to adjust the synonyms of old authors, 

 between this and the reflexum, because the latter varies in the 

 position of its Jlower -stalks, and it appears that writers who di- 

 stinguished them as species have not always known what their 

 predecessors intended. The excellent cut of Fuchsius, referred 

 to this by C. Bauhin, surely represents the former. The figures 



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