DODECAND.—DODECAGYNIA. Sempervivum. 351 



S. majus. Raii Si/n. 269. Ger. Em. 510./. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 

 4C1./. Camer. Epit. 854./. 



Sedum n. 949. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 409. 



S. majus. Fuchs. Hist. 32. f. Ic. \7.f. 



On walls and cottage roofs, frequent. 



Perennial. July. 



Root fibrous, crowned with several rosaceous tufts of numerous, 

 oblonp^, acute, keeled, fringed, extremely succulent leaves. 

 Stem from the centre of one of those tufts, a foot high, erect, 

 round, downy, clothed with several, more narrow, sessile, alter- 

 nate leaves, and terminating in a sort of many-flowered cyme, 

 with spiked branches. Fl. large, pale rose-coloured, without 

 scent. Segments of the calyx 12 or more, with a similar num- 

 ber o( petals, stamens and pistils. 



The leaves are cooling, when applied externally, and frequently re- 

 newed. They possess moreover an astringent property, which 

 is rather salutary in many cases. The Dispensatory describes 

 a beautiful white highly volatile coagulum, formed of the fil- 

 trated juice of these leaves, with an equal quantity of rectified 

 spirit of wine. 



