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^EDUM^ Cepsea. 

 Panicled Stonecrop. 



DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Crassulace^ Juss. {Introduction to the natural system 

 of Botany, p. 161.) 



SEDUM.—Suprc\, vol. 2. fol. 142. 



** Planifolia, Jloribus albis, rubris, aut cceruleis. Dec. prodr. 3. 402. 



S. CepcBa ; caule herbaceo terete pubescente, foliis planis integerrimis, 

 infimis subspatulatis, superioribus oblongis linearibusve, floribus pani- 

 culatis, petalis in acumen aristatum desinentibus.— Dec. I. c. 404. 



S. Cepaea. Linn, species pi. 617. 



S. paniculatum. Lamarck sec. Decand. 



S. galioides. Allioni ped. t. 65. f. 3. "1 



S. spatulatum. Waldst. et Kitaih. 2. p. 108. t. 104. I Varr. sec. Decan- 



S. tetraphyllum. Smith prodr. Jl. Grcec. I. 309. j dollium.. 



S. alsinefolium. Allioni ped. t. 22./". 2. J 



Anacampseros Cepaea, Haworth. 



A very common plant in the south of Europe, where it 

 assumes different appearances according to the situations 

 in which it grows; from these the several erroneous species 

 above noticed, after Decandolle, have been formed. Under 

 its common appearance it is found every where upon 

 stones, rocks, and walls, on all the northern coast of the 

 basin of the Mediterranean. It appears under the form of 

 S. alsinefolium in shady places in Piedmont, on the moun- 

 tains of Roaschia and elsewhere; as S. galioides in Pied- 

 mont and Corsica; as S. spatulatum in the south of 

 Hungary; and as S. tetraphyllum in hot places in the 

 Morea. It is particularly variable in the degree of length 



* Said to have been so named d semper sedendo, because it is always 

 seated, as it were, upon stones, &c. This Cepaea is the KfiTcxiec of the 

 Greeks, according to some. 



