Dodecandria Dodecag.. Sempetvivum. 
Herba acaulis czespitosà. Radix fibrosa peren- 
nis. Folia radicalia: numerosissima, densis- 
simé imbricata, orbiculatim nata ut in przece- 
déritibuly at magis erecta; angusté B vag 
quam in preecedentibus et seepius circiter sep- 
tem, sed nunquam sex vel quin — es 
Siccos exceptos, non possideo. Misc. nat.1. c. 
Ons. This can hardly be Miller's Cotyledón spi- 
nosa, for that does not appear to bé a shy- 
flowering plant: and he says its flower-stalks 
rise about four inches high, and support four 
or five whitish flowers, which are cut at the 
- brim into five pum These appear in April, 
Fo and is so ep difficul t to 
ues. What I have not bloomed it once, al- 
hough I have. tried it in. inan situations du- 
ring the last: twenty years 
