150 CRASSULACEJE. (ORPINE FAMILY.) - 
with the petals. Ovaries as many as the sepals, separate or united below. 
Carpels several-seeded, opening along the inner suture. Seeds anatropous. 
Embryo straight, in thin albumen. 
Synopsis. 
1. SEDUM. Carpels distinct. Sepals 4-5. Stamens 8 or 10. . 
2. DIAMORPHA. Carpels united at the base. Sepals 4. Stamens 8. 
8. PENTHORUM. Carpels united above the middle. Sepals 5. Stamens 10. 
1. SEDUM, L. Orpixe. Sroxr-cnor. 
Sepals 4-5. Stamens 8 or 10. Carpels distinct, many-seeded, with an en- 
tire scale at the base of each. — Herbs smooth and fleshy. 
1. S. telephioides, Michx. Stem stout, erect or ascending, very leafy 
throughout; leaves alternate, oblong-obovate, toothed or entire; the lower ones 
mostly tapering into a petiole, the upper sessile; cymes compact, erect, many- 
flowered ; petals flesh-color, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; stamens 10; carpels 
acuminate, pointed with the slender style. — Dry rocks, along the mountains, 
Georgia, and northward. June. — Stem 7'-12 high. Leaves 1’-1}' long. 
2. S. ternatum, Michx. Stems low (3!— 8^), branching at the base, ascend- 
ing; lowest leaves crowded, spatulate or obovate, 3 in a whorl; the upper ones 
scattered, oval or lanceolate ; cyme composed of 3 recurved branches ; stamens 
8, those of the central flowers 10.— Mountain-rocks, Georgia, Tennessee, and 
northward. May and June. ) — Flowers white. 
3. S. pulchellum, Michx. Stems ascending (4' - 19'long); leaves very 
numerous, alternate, linear, obtuse; cyme composed of several recurved or 
spreading branches; flowers pale purple; sepals much shorter than the petals; r 
stamens 8, those of the central flowers mostly 10; carpels tapering into the long 
and slender style. — With the preceding. - May and June. 
4. S. Nevii, Gray. Stems low (3'-5'), ascending; leaves alternate, scat- 
tered, linear-clavate, obtuse; flowers sessile, scattered along the widely spread- 
ing or recurved branches of the simple cyme; bracts linear, longer than the 
flowers ; sepals linear-lanceolate, acutish, as long as the lanceolate white petals ; 
stamens 8, shorter than the petals; anthers purplish-brown; carpels tapering 
into the short subulate style.— Rocky cliffs at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Rev. R. 
D. Nevius. April and May. 
2 DIAMORPHA, Nott. 
Bei, very short. Petals 4, oval, concave. Stamens 8. Carpels 4, united 
below the middle, at length spreading, 4 — 8-seeded. — A small (1'—4') succu- 
lent — branching from the base. Leaves terete, fleshy. Flowers 
— On fat rods in tho upper disi, Alabama 1. 
