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the rock-garden. We may also include Sedum dasy- 
phyllum, and Sedum brevifolium, a really beautiful tiny 
species, with fat blue foliage. (Pottsi is the name under 
which I had this, but what Pottsi may mean, or who 
Potts is—unless he is the unique gentleman who said he 
admired Johnson’s Jrene,—I have no notion.) 
Equally pretty are my Sedum lydium and my SS. Ewersi 
turkestanicum, this last rather larger, prostrate, with 
ovate, variegated leaves and pretty pink heads, Cor- 
sicum 1s neat, and supposed to be a form of dasyphyllum, 
and farinosum a form of album. Rhodanthum and 
aeizoon | am growing on from seed. But the larger 
Stonecrops lack individuality in my mind—they are 
furniture rather than inhabitants of the garden. 
Of the larger Sedums Ingleborough provides me with 
Sedum Rhodiola, the herbaceous Rose-root, with stout 
woody root-stock, and stiff stems of glaucous leafage and 
dull yellow flowers. ‘The name comes from the scent of 
the root, which, in the wild plants, is like that of an old 
Damask rose. Sedwm spurium, a prostrate mass, with 
broad heads of white and pink, ramps in every cottage- 
garden; Sedum kamschaticum, with a variegated form, is 
virtually an orange-coloured spurium ; Sedum Telephium, 
with tall, dingy crimson heads, is a useful, uninteresting 
native; Sedum spectabile, with its enormous blue leaves 
and ample cauliflowers of rosy blossom in late autumn is 
equally familiar. It is a splendid thing, beloved of bees 
and butterflies, though its colour has a chalky tone that 
makes it perfectly ghastly anywhere within a mile of any 
good crimson, scarlet, or yellow. Sedum sewangulare and 
Sedum rupestre are natives, the first common, and the 
second extremely rare, but not easily distinguishable from 
each other; both thrive on any wall, and have heads of 
golden flowers which, in the similar Sedum pulchellum, are 
of asoft pink. Unfortunately Sedum pulchellum, otherwise 
