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II. Remarks on the Sedum ochroleucutn, or Aei^aiov ro fjuu^ov of 

 Dioscorides ; in a Letter to Alexander MacLeay, Esq. Sec. Linn. 

 Sac. Bi/ James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 



Read November 1, 1808. « 



Dear Sir, 

 I BEG leave through your hands to welcome my brethren of the 

 Linnean Society on their first meeting for the ensuing season, 

 and to communicate at the same time an article of botanical 

 intelligence rather interesting to those who are solicitous about 

 natural genera, as well as to those who have endeavoured to 

 ascertain the plants of ancient Greek authors. 



Jacquin in his Hortus Vindohonensis, v. 1. 35. t. 81, has de- 

 scribed and figured a plant by the name of Sempervivum sedi- 

 forme, which subsequent compilers of botanic systems have im- 

 plicitly adopted by that name. It has even found its way into 

 the Hortus Kewensis, v. 2. 149, being far from uncommon in the 

 Eno-lish gardens, where it flowers copiously every summer in the 

 open ground. The excellent author above mentioned remarks, 

 that " the appearance of its leaves " (he might have said its 

 whole habit) " is that of a Sedum," but that " the flower has 

 " exactly the character of a Sempervivum, the petals being 6 or 

 " 7, with broad bases, and an equal number in the parts of 

 " the calyx, as well as the germens, and double the number of 

 " stamens." He also asserts that " there are no nectariferous 



" scales." 



The 



