o2 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Section III.— EU-SEDUM. 



Stem producing perennial procumbent or creeping barren shoots 

 as well as flowering-stems, the latter decaying each year, but the 

 former remaining. Leaves more or less swollen. 



SPECIES IV.— SEDUM ALBUM. Linn. 

 Plate DXXIX. 



Stems branched, producing numerous procumbent rooting 

 barren shoots at the same time as the flowering ones. Leaves 

 rather approximate on the barren shoots, more distant on the flow- 

 ering portion of the stem, oblong- cylindrical or clavate-cylindrical, 

 flattened above, convex beneath, not spurred at the base on the 

 lower side, green, glabrous or nearly so. Elowers white, numerous, 

 in a terminal much-branched corymbose cyme ; branches of the 

 cyme and pedicels glabrous. 



Sub-Species I.— Sedum teretifolium.* Haw. 



Plate DXXIX. (Fig. 1.) 

 S. album, var. a, Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 130. 



Leaves on the barren shoots rather distant except at the apex, 

 oblong-cylindrical, considerably flattened above; those on the flow- 

 ering portions distant, spreading or reflexed. Sepals oval, obtuse. 

 Petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. 



On walls and rocks. Rare, and probably not native except in 

 the West of England, where it is said to be truly wild on the Mal- 

 vern Hills, Gloucestershire, and in Somersetshire. 



England. Perennial. Late Summer. 



Barren stems decumbent at the base, producing numerous root- 

 ing barren shoots, varying in length according to situation ; flower- 

 ing-stems 4 to 10 inches high. Leaves about \ inch long, very slightly 

 clavate, very succulent. Elowers \ inch across, white. Sepals con- 

 cave, green. Petals twice as long as the sepals, boat-shaped, pure 

 white. Anthers yellowish. Pistils green or pink. Carpels obliquely 

 acuminated into a long beak. AVhole plant bright green, glabrous 

 or with the stems slightly glandular. 



TFJiite Stone-crop. 



French, Sedum Blanc. German, Weisse Fetthenne. 



* Named S. eu-album on tlxe plate. 



