CLASS X. ORDER IV.] SEDUM. 661 



GENUS XXI. SED'UM.— Linn. Orpine and Stonecrop. 



Nat. Ord. Crassu'lace.e. De Cand. 



Gen. Char. Calyx of five pieces, often united at the base. Petals 

 five, spreading. Stamens ten. Ovaries five, each with a nec- 

 tariferous scale at the base. — Name from Sedere^ to sit ; from 

 many of them growing upon the bare rock, and looking as if 

 sitting upon it. 



* Stem erectj without procumbent branches, 

 a. Leaves flat. 



1. S. Tele'phium, Linn. (Fig. 751.) Orpine or Live-long. Stem 

 erect ; leaves ovate oblong, unequally and obtusely serrated, rounded 

 at the base, sessile ; corymbs terminal, dense, leafy. 



English Botany, t. 1319.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 316.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 212. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 64. 



13. Fabaria. Leaves oblong, lanceolate, dentalo-serrated, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, the lower ones petiolated. 



S. Fabaria. Koch. Flora Germanica et Helvetica, p. 258. — S. 

 Telephium. — jS. purpureum, Linn, 



Root of several fleshy tapering long branches. The whole plant 

 quite smooth. Stem erect, simple, rarely branched, round, from one 

 to two feet high, spotted with numerous purple spots, leafy. Leaves 

 alternate, opposite, sometimes three in a whorl, and often on the lower 

 part of the stem scattered, ovate oblong, or ovate lanceolate, sessile, 

 fleshy, obtusely serrated or dentato-serrated, rounded or wedge-shaped 

 at the base, paler on the under side, and with a broad mid rib. 

 Jnjlorescence terminal and lateral, dense corymbose clusters, with a few 

 leaves intermixed with them. Flowers crimson, sometimes white. 

 Calyx small. Petals lanceolate, spreading, with a somewhat canalicu- 

 lated point. Stamens on awl-shaped filaments, nearly as long as the 

 petals. Anthers roundish, heart-shaped, of two cells. 



Habitat. — Banks, hedges, and waste shady places ; frequent. 



Perennial ; flowering in July and August. 



h. Leaves rounded. 



2. S. villo'sumy Linn. (Fig. 752.) Hairy Stonecrop. Stem erect; 

 leaves scattered, sessile, linear, oblong, obtuse, rounded at the back, 

 flattened above, glanduloso-pubescent, as well as the terminal sub- 

 racemose panicle; petals ovate, acute, twice as long as the calyx. 



English Botany, t. 394.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 319.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, vol. i. p. 212.- Lindley, Synopsis, p. 65, 



Root small branched fibres. Stem erect, round, smooth, spotted 

 with small red spots, from three to six inches high, simple or branched, 

 above viscid, with soft glandular pubescence. Leaves numerous, scat- 



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