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122. SEDUM miserum. , 



S. miserum; caulibus procumbentibus, foliis inferioribus sparsis teretibus de- 

 pressis superioribus ovato-linearibus semicylindraceis aggregatis, floribus 

 sessilibus solitariis terminalibus, sepalis fbliaccis petalis ovatis cucullatis 

 apiculatis aspero-carinatis longioribus, staminibus pctalinis brevioribus, 

 squamis cuneatis retusis. 



An inconspicuous succulent annual, raised from Mexican 

 seeds, imported by George Frederick Dickson, Esq. It grows 

 about nine inches high, or rather longer, for it falls prostrate 

 if not supported ; its flowers are green, and almost hidden 

 among the fleshy leafy sepals. It multiplies itself by seeds, 

 and by fragments of its brittle branches, which drop off the 

 parent, and strike root into the ground. 



123. CARPESIUM pubescens. 

 Wall Cat. n. 3199. DC prodr. v. 281. 



This plant has lately flowered in the garden of the Horti- 

 cultural Society, where it was raised from seeds received 

 from Dr. Falconer. It is certainly a mere variety of Carpe- 

 sium cernuum, and hardly so much. Nor does there ap- 

 pear any good character to distinguish from our European 

 plant the C. nepalense of Lessing. The copious hairiness of 

 that supposed species is nearly equalled by the plant now 

 before me ; and the size of the capitula, described by De 

 Candolle as being four lines broad, is of no importance ; for 

 on the same living cultivated specimen they vary from five 

 to twelve lines in diameter, according to their age. 



124. ONClDltM hians. 



O. hians; sepalis petalisque aqualibus ovalibus obtusis leviter concavis, labello 

 angusto auriculato medio contracto apice bilobo, callo disci bilobo utrinque 

 dentate- carnoso papillose- erecto columna parallelo eique longitudine eequali, 

 alis columnae carnosis acutis vix falcatis. 



I have only seen flowers of this little species, which comes 

 near to O. carinatum. Messrs. Rollissons received it from 

 I. September, 1838. k 



