DECANDRIA— PEXTAGYNIA. Sedum. 317 



Perennial. June. 



Root fibrous, small. Herb glaucous, smooth. Stems weak and re- 

 cumbent, 3 or 4 inches high, throwing out radicles from the 

 lower part. Leaves very thick and juicy, the size of a grain of 

 wheat, tinged frequently with red, sessile, not sparred at the 

 base ; lower ones crowded and opposite ; upper scattered. Pa- 

 7iicles simple, terminal, with downy viscid stalks, no hracteas. 

 Cal. small, downy and viscid. Pet. white, with a red central 

 line. Nect. minute, greenish, as well as the ger metis. Anth. 

 red. The germens and capsules, in a garden at least, are often 

 more than .5 ; the^owers at the same time having 6 petals and 

 12 stamens. The plant has not much of an acrid flavour. It is 

 impatient of wet, and of manure, but increases plentifully by 

 seed, among stones and rock-work. 



3. S. anglicum. Wliite English Stonecrop. 

 Leaves ovate, thick, mostly alternate ; spurred at the base. 



Cyme of two smooth branches. 



S. anglicum. HudsA^^. M'ith. 428. JVHld. Sp. PL v. 2. 768. 

 Ft. Br.A8Q>. Engl. Bat. v.3.t.\7\. Hook. Scot. 140. 



S. annuum. Iluds. ed. 1 . 1/2. 



S. rubens. Light/. 235. 



S. minimum non acre, flore albo. Rail Sijn. 2/0. t. 12. f. 2. FL 

 Dan. t. 82. 



Mild White Stonecrop. Pet. H. Brit. t. 42. f. 10. 



On the sandy or rocky sea coast, as well as on mountains. 



Upon barren ground in Suffolk, between Yarmouth and Dunwich, 

 plentifully ; as well as on the rocks of Lancashire and West- 

 moreland. Ray. On roofs and walls, in the mountainous parts 

 of Whales especially. Dr. Richardson. On the sea shore near 

 Brakelsham abundantly. Dillenius. In Devonshire and Corn- 

 wall, as well as in Scotland, frequent. 



Annual. July. 



Root fil)rous. .S7em6- forming small tufts, 2 or 3 inches high, de- 

 cumbent at the base, round, smooth, leafv, 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 jxfal ; at first crowded ; 

 but afterwards racemose, each cynn- having two branches, with 

 an intermediate flower. Stalks and calyx smooth, ('apsules 

 membranous. This s])ecies, thougli long unsettled, is found in 

 most parts of Europe, from Sweden to Portugal. 



4. S. acre. Biting Stonecrop. \\'all Pepper. 

 Leaves alternate, nearly ovate, thick, tinnid; sj)urrc(l at the 



base. Cvme of three smootii blanches, leafv. 



