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Var. a, majus. 



Stems stout. Leaves f to 1 inch long. Plowering-stcms 9 inches 

 to 1 foot high. Branches of the cyme 1 J to 2 inches long. 



Var. 0, minus. 



S. Forsterianum, Leight. Fl. Shrop. p. 195 (non Smith). 



Stems more slender. Leaves f to f inch long. Plowering- 

 stems 4 to 9 inches high. Branches of the cyme f to 1 inch 

 long. 



On rocks. Var. a on Cheddar Cliffs ; var. ^ on St. Vincent's 

 Bocks, Bristol ; in Wales, Shropshire, and as an escape from 

 gardens, on walls and dry banks in many counties besides. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Perennial. Summer. 



This plant closely resembles S. reflexum, the variety a. equalling 

 it in size ; but it may be always readily recognized by the flattened 

 and more pointed leaves in many more longitudinal rows. Var. 3, 

 the form commonly cultivated, has the leaves at the apex of the 

 barren shoots arranged in rosettes, open when moist, but closed into a 

 mass like a fir-cone when the plant begins to flag from a continuance 

 of dry weather. When growing in damp places, or where the climate 

 is moist, the leaves on the barren shoots below the terminal rosette 

 remain ; but in a dry atmosphere they soon wither and fall off, leav- 

 ing only the rosette. The flowers are considerably smaller than in 

 var. a, in which they are nearly as large as in S. reflexum ; the stems 

 in both a and 3 are generally purplisli-red. The flowers are seldom 

 bracteated, as is usually the case in S. reflexum. Var. majus has its 

 barren stems bearing some resemblance to young shoots of Linaria 

 purpurea. 



In the Linnsean Herbarium S. rupestre is represented by a 

 specimen of the South European S. amplexicaule. 



Hoch Stone-crop. 

 Sub Species II.— Sedum Porsterianum. Sm. 



Plate DXXXVII. 



S. aureum, Wirt. Fl. Rhein. Prov. p. 184. Crepin, Notes sur PI. Rares ou Grit, de la 

 Belgique, Fasc. II. p. 22. 



Leaves green. Cymes roundish-topped. Plant more slender 

 than in S. elegans. 



On damp rocks and about waterfalls. Bare. In West Somerset 

 and Wales. 



England. Perennial. Summer. 



