54 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



ovate, about half as thick as wide, often speckled with rose-coloured 

 dots ; those on the barren shoots opposite, entirely glaucous-i^reen, 

 pitted, all clothed with short gland-tipped hairs. Flowers ^ inch 

 across, white. Sepals ovate, acute, glandular. Petals oblong-oval, 

 flattish, acute, often streaked on the outside with rose - colour. 

 Anthers reddish. Pistils green, often tinged with rose and dotted 

 with red. Carpels acuminated into a rather long beak. 



Th ick- lea ved Stone-crop . 



French, Sedum d, Feuilles epaisses. German, Bervfte Fetthenne. 



SPECIES VI.-SEDUM AN G LI CUM. Iluds. 

 Plate DXXXI. 



Stems tufted, much-branched, producing very numerous, de- 

 cumbent barren shoots below the flowering ones. Leaves alternate, 

 crowded, imbricated on the barren shoots, more distant on the 

 flowering ones, ovate -ovoid or oblong- ovoid, slightly flattened 

 above and convex beneath, produced downwards at the base into 

 a slight blunt rounded spur not applied to the stem, green, gla- 

 brous. Plowers white, few, in a forked cyme, with sub-scorpioid 

 branches ; branches of the cyme and pedicels glabrous. 



On rocks and in dry sandy ground, especially near the sea. 

 Kather local, being common on the west coast, but appearing only 

 here and there on the south and east coasts as far north as Porfar 

 and Elgin ; and occasionally inland, as on the Ochili Hills, near 

 Dollar, Clackmannanshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 

 and Autumn. 



This species grows in dense matted tufts, wdtli the procumbent 

 part of the stem very slender and creeping. Leaves much crowded, 

 especially on the barren shoots, J to J inch long, much less swollen 

 than in S. dasyphyllum, and further differing in having a blunt 

 spur or protuberance at the base on the under side : but this spur 

 is not applied to the stem as in the species next following, whicli it 

 resembles in the leaves being green and not glandular-pubescent. 

 Plowering-shoots 1 to 6 inches long, decumbent, ascending at the 

 apex. Plowers J- inch across, white tinged with pink, in a forked 

 cyme, usually with 2 scorpioid branches with 3 or 4 flowers each, 

 and another flower in the fork. Sepals ovate-obtuse, glabrous. 

 Petals lanceolate, keeled beneath, acute. Anthers purple. Pistils 

 pink. Pollicles acuminated into a rather short beak. Plant fre- 

 quently tinged with reddish. 



English Stone-crop. 



French, Sedum d'Angleterre. 



