PLATE LII. 



1. SEDUM ANACAMPSEROS. 



EVERGREEN ORPINE. 



This genus contains plants of the hardy herbaceous succulent 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Decandria Pentagynia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Succident(t. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a five-cleft perianth, acute, 

 erect, permanent: the corolla has five petals, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 flat, spreading: nectaries five; each a very small emarginate 

 scale, inserted into each germ at the base on the outside: the 

 stamina have ten awl-shaped filaments, length of the corolla: an- 

 thers roundish: the pistillum has five oblong germs, ending in 

 more slender styles: stigmas obtuse: the pcricarpium five capsules, 

 spreading, acuminate, compressed, emarginate towards the base, 

 opening on the inside longitudinally by a suture : the seeds nume- 

 rous, very small. 



The species cultivated are 1.6'. Telephiuin, Orpine Stonecrop; 

 2. S. Anacampseros, Evergreen Orpine; 3. S. Aizoon, Yellow Stone- 

 crop; 4. S. popidifolium. Poplar-leaved Stonecrop; 5. S. stellatum. 

 Starry Stonecrop ; 6. S. Cepcea, Purslane-leaved Stonecrop ; 7. 5*. 

 dasi/phi/l/um. Thick-leaved Stonecrop; 8. S. rejiexum. Yellow Stone- 

 crop; Q. S. riipestre, Rock Stonecrop; 10. S. Hispanicum, Spanish 

 Stonecrop; 11. S. album, White Stonecrop; 12. S. acre, Biting 

 Stonecrop, or Wall Pepper; 13, S. sexangidare. Insipid Stonecrop; 

 14. S. Anglicum, English or Mild White Stonecrop; 15. S, annuum. 

 Annual Stonecrop. 



The first has a perennial tuberous root: the stems from one to 



