296 CRASSULACEAE 
Famity II.—CRASSULACEAE. OrpinrE FAmMILy 
Fleshy or succulent herbs with alternate leaves and regular 
flowers in terminal spreading clusters (cymes). Stipules none. 
Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals. Petals equalling the number of sepals. 
Stamens equal in number to petals or double the number, gen- 
erally the latter. Seed caskets (carpels) opposite the petals and 
of the same number. Fruit, dry seed caskets with several seeds 
in each casket or follicle. 
Minute herbs, stamens equal to number of sepals . . Tillaea 
Very fleshy herbs; twice as many stamens as sepals. Leaves 
emall, scale-like’ 2- 5 «..%, «© 96 (&! @> oes Ss. ee 
Plant not very fleshy, leaves conspicuous, on leaf stalk. 
Flowers in forked terminal clusters (cymes). Petals 
usuallywanting .° . .  s «sv 4) 2° 6 semen 
1. TILLAEA, L. 
Very small smooth plant growing in mud. Leaves opposite, Flowers 
very small, one in a leaf axil. Petals 3 to 5. Calyx of 3 to 5 sepals. 
Stamens 3 to 5. 
T. aquatica, L. (Fig. 5, pl. 59.) Picmy Weep. Stem 3 to 3 in. 
high. Leaves linear, opposite. In the axes of the leaves appear the small 
rounded bud or flower, having calyx lobes, petals and carpels, each 4. 
The petals are greenish. Muddy banks and streams, mostly near sea 
coast. July-Sept. 
2. SEDUM, L. 
Smooth fleshy plants, generally escapes from gardens, Leaves alter- 
nate. Flowers with stamens and pistils. Stamens twice as many as 
the petals. Flowers generally in 5’s, exceptionally 4-parted. Stamens 
8 or 10. 
Flowers with 4 petals and 8 stamens. 
Stamens and pistils on different plants . . . « +» « « « Ss roseum 
Flowers with 5 petals and io stamens. 
Stamens and pistils in the same flower. 
Petals purple or white. 
Leaves broad and flat, 1 to 2 in. long - . . S. purpureum 
Leaves less than an inch long. 
Flowers “white i . .« « © «© © «© o! «| «Ws peeGnnrnnuyE 
Flowers pink = «5 «(% « « « -« %\\«. “VAS Bleghsouies 
Flowers yellow. 
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1. §S. roseum, (L.) Scop. (Fig. 7, pl. 59.) Rosewort. Stems 5 
to 10 in. high. Leaves oval without leaf-stalks, toothed, overlying each 
other. Cluster of leaves terminal, dense, greenish-yellow, turning purple. 
A northern species rare in our region, but extending into Maine and 
further south. 
2. §. purpureum, ‘Tausch. (Fig. 2, pl. 59. GaArpeNn Live-For-EveER, 
