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§ 2. Leaves narrow and thick, barely flattish or terete : low or creeping plants. 



S. icre, Mossy S., or Wall-Pepper. Cult, from Eu., for edgings and 

 rock-work, running wild in some places : a moss-like little plant, forming mats 

 on the ground, yellowish-green, with veiy succulent and thick ovate small and 

 crowded leaves, and yellow flowers in summer, their parts in fives. 



S. pulch611um, Beautiful S. Wild S. W. on rocks ; also cult, in 

 gardens, &c. ; spreading and rooting stems 4' - 12' long ; leaves crowded, terete, 

 linear-thread-shaped ; flowers rose-purple, crowded on the upper side of the 4 

 or 5 spreading branches of the cyme, their parts mostly in fours, while those of 

 the central or earliest flower are in fives : in summer. 



S. carneum, varieg^tum. Cult, of late for borders, &c., of unknown 

 origin ; has creeping stems, and the small leaves mostly opposite, sometimes in 

 threes, linear, flattish, acute, very pale green, and white-edged : flowers not yet 

 seen. 



4. TILL^A. (Named for an Italian botanist, TiY//.) Fl. all summer. ® 

 T. simplex, is a minute plant of muddy river-banks along the coast, 



spreading and rooting, only l'-2' high, with linear-oblong opposite leaves, and 

 solitary inconspicuous white flowers sessile in their axils. 



5. CRASSULA. (So named from the incrassated leaves.) House-pl'ants, 

 occasionally cult., from Cape of Good Hope. ^ 



C. arbor6seens. Fleshy shrub, with glaucous roundish-obovate leaves 

 (2' long) tapering to a narrow base, and dotted on the upper face ; the flowers 

 rather large and rose-colored. 



C. l^Ctea, has greener and narrower-obovate leaves, connate at the base in 

 pairs, and a panicle of smaller white flowers. 



C. falckta, has slightly woody stems, oblong and rather falcate or curved 

 leaves connate at base, 3' -4' long, powdery -glaucous, and a compound cyme of 

 many red sweet-scented flowers, the petals with erect claws partly united be- 

 low, and spreading abruptly above ; so that the plant has been placed under 

 the next genus, and named Rochea falcata. 



6. ROCHEA. (Named for a Swiss physician, Laroche.) Half-shrubby 

 succulent house-plants of the Cape of Good Hope. 2/ 



R. COeeinea. Stems l°-2° high, thickly beset with the oblong-ovate 

 (1' long) leaves up to the terminal and umbel-like sessile cluster of handsome 

 flowers ; tube of the scarlet-red corolla 1' long. 



7. COTYLEDON. (From Greek word for a sAaZ/ow cup.) House-plants, 

 not common. 2/ 



C orbicul^ta. Half-shrubby succulent plant, from Cape of Good Hope, 

 with opposite white-powdery or glaucous wedge-obovatc leaves (2' -4' long), 

 and a cluster of showy red flowers (nearly 1' long) raised on a slender nivked 

 petiole, the cylindraceous tube of the corolla longer than the recurved l<;bcs. 



C. (or Ech^veria) eoecinea, from Mexico, is shmbby at base, with 

 the wcdge-obovate acute leaves in rosettes, and alternate and scattered on the 

 flowering stems ; flowers in a leafy spike, the 5-partcd corolla not longer than 

 the spreading calyx, 5-angled at base, red outside, yellow within. 



8. BRYOPHYLLUM. (Name of Greek words for sprout or hud and 

 leaf.) 21 



B. ealycinum. A scarcely shrubby succulent plant, originally from 

 tropical vVtrica, cult, in houses, &c., with of)posito pctiolcd leaves, 3 or .'3 pinnate 

 leaflets, or the upijcr of single leaflets, and an open panicle of large and rather 

 handsome hanging green flowers tinged Avith purjile : the calyx is oblong and 

 bladdery ; out of it the tubular corolla at length projects, and has 4 slightly 

 spreading acute lobes ; the leaflets oval, 2-3 inches long, crcnatc ; when laid on 

 the soil, or kept in a moist place, they root and bud at the notchc ;, and pro- 

 duce little plants. The name refers to the propagation of the plant in this way. 



