BrYoPHYLLUM. LXIV. CRASSULACE. 277 
10; carpels 4—5, distinct, many-seeded, with an entire scale at the 
base of each.— Mostly herbaceous. Inflorescence cymose. Fs. mostly 
pentamer ous. 
1. S. TELEPHIOipES. Michx. 
Ivs. broadly lanceolate, attenuate at base, subdentate, smooth; cymes 
‘dense, corymbose; s/a. 10, the petals, sepals and carpels in 5s—Found on rocks, 
lake and river shores, N. Y., N. J., Harper’s Ferry, Va.! &c. Stem a foot 
high. Leaves 1—2’ long, 3 as wide. Flowers numerous, purple, in a terminal, 
branching cyme. Jn.—Aug.—Like the other species, very tenacious of life. 
My specimens, gathered several months since at Harper’s Ferry, are still grow- 
ing in the dry papers. 
2. S. rerNATUM. Michx. Stone-crop. 
Ivs. ternately verticillate, obovate, flat, smooth, entire, the upper ones 
scattered, sessile, lanceolate; cyme in about 3 spikes; fis. secund, the central 
one with 10 stamens, the rest with only 8.—2| In Can. West, Penn. the South- 
ern and Western States, Plummer! Cultivated in N. Eng. Stems 3—8' long, 
branching and decumbent at base, assurgent above. Cyme with the 3 branches 
spreading and recurved, the white flowers loosely arranged on their upper side. 
Jl. Aug. f : 
3. S. Teversium. Common Orpine. Live-forever.—Rt. tuberous, fleshy, 
white; st. 1 or 2f high, erect; dvs. flattish, ovate, obtuse, serrate, scattered; 
cyme corymbose, leafy.—2| From Europe. Cultivated and nearly naturalized. 
Stems simple, leafy, round, smooth, purplish. Leaves sessile, fleshy. Flowers 
white and purple, in dense, terminal, leafy tufts. Aug. + 
4. S. AnacampsERos. Evergreen Stone-crop—Rt. fibrous; st. decumbent; 
Ws. cuneiform, attenuate at base; cymes corymbose, leafy.—2| Native of Eu- 
rope, growing there in crevices of rocks. Stems reddish and decumbent at 
base, erect and glaucous above. Luvs. fleshy, bluish green. Fis. purple. Jl. f 
5. S. acre. English Moss. Wall Pepper—Procumbent, spreading, branch- 
ing from the base; lvs. very small, somewhat ovate, fleshy, crowded, alternate, 
closely sessile, obtuse, nearly erect; cyme few-flowered, trifid, leafy —From 
Great Britain. In cultivation it spreads rapidly on walls, borders of flower- 
beds, &c. densely covering the surface. Flowers yellow. The whole plant 
abounds in an acrid, biting juice. + 
3. SEMPERVIVUM. 
Lat. semper vivere, to live forever; in allusion to their tenacity of life. 
Sepals 6—20, slightly cohering at base ; petals as many as sepals, 
acuminate; stamens twice as many as petals; hypogynous scales la- 
cerated ; carpels as many as the petals—% Herbaceous plants or 
shrubs, propagated by axillary offsets. Lvs. thick, fleshy. 
1. 8. Tecrérum. House-leek.—Lws. fringed ; offsets spreading.—A well known 
plant of the gardens, with thick, fleshy, mucilaginous leaves. It sends out 
runners with offsets, rarely flowering. It is so succulent and hardy that it will 
grow on dry walls, and on the roofs of houses (tectorum). It is sometimes 
placed in the borders of flower-beds. 
2. 8S. arporeuM. Tvee House-leek.—=St. arborescent, smooth, branched; Js. 
cuneiform, smoothish, bordered with soft, spreading ciliz.—A curious and or- 
namental evergreen, from the Levant. Stem very thick and fleshy, branching 
into a tree-like form, 8—10f high (1—3f in pots). ‘Fls. yellow, rarely appearing. 
4,.BRYOPHYLLUM. Salisb. 
Gr. Bove, to grow, guddov, a leaf; i.e. germinating from a leaf. 
Calyx inflated, 4-cleft scarcely to the middle ; corolla monopeta- 
lous, the tube long and cylindrical, 4-sided and obtuse at base; limb 
in 4, triangular, acute lobes; seeds many.—An evergreen, fleshy, 
