318 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Sedum. 



S. acre. Linn. Sp. Fl.6\9. Willd.v.2. 767. Fl.Br.487. Engl. 

 Bot. V. \2.t. 839. Curt. Lond.fasc. I . t. 32. Woodv. suppl. t.23\. 

 Hook. Scot. 140. Bull. Fr. t. 31. Ehrh. PL Of. 86. 



S. n. 966. Hall. Hist. V. 1.415. 



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

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



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



Sedi tertium genus. Fuchs. Hist. 36. f. 



Sempervivum minus vermiculatum. Bauh. Pin. 283. 



S. minimum. Camer. Epit. 856./ good. 



Vermicularis, sive lUecebra minor acris. Ger. Em. 517. f. 



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



Perennial. June. 



Root fibrous, subdivided. Herb smooth, succulent andt ender, of 

 a ^rass green, very hot and pungent to the taste, comoosingl ax 

 wi^de-spreading tufts. Stems intricate, branched ) the branches 

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

 the barren branches ; scattered on the flowering ones ; 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. sexangidare . Insipid Yellow Stonecrop. 

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



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



smooth branches, leafy. 

 S. sexangulare. Linn. Sp. PL 620. Willd.v.2.767. Fl. Br. 488. 



Engl. Bot. V. 28. t. 1946. Curt Lond. fasc. 4. t. 33. Ehrh. 



Herb. 16. 

 S. acre /3. Huds. 196. 

 S. n. 965. HaU. HisL v.\. 415. 



Sempervivum minus vermiculatum insipidum. Bauh. Pin. 284. 

 S. minimum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 463. f. Lob. Ic. 379./ ? 

 S. minimum luteum non acre. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. p. 2. 695. 

 Aizoon minimum. Cord. Hist. 98. 

 A. minimum repens, tertium Dioscoridis. Dalech. Hist. 1 130./. 



On dry sandy ground, and old walls, not common. 



Near Northfleet, Sheerness, and in the Isle of Shepey. Huds. On 



Greenwich park wall, on the south side, near the western corner. 



Curtis. Cambridgeshire. Relhan. On the famous rotten walls 



of Old Sarum. Mr. D. Turner. 

 Perennial. July. 

 Rather larger than the last, with which it nearly agrees in flowers 



and inflorescence ; but difl'ers evidently and most essentially in 



foliage. The leaves are indeed of the same grass-green hue j 



