SEDUM. 



diverge into drawn-out branches, and are loosely set with acute-petalled 

 white stars banded with pink. (Sikkim.) 



S. aeizoon is close to S. kamscliaticum, the yellow-flowered 8. spurium, 

 but is not so creeping, smaller in all its parts, and with more numerous 

 golden blossoms packed into a tighter, flatter head of sprays, nestling 

 among the uppermost stem-leaves that overtop them all round. 



S. alamosanum is bright pink, about 2 inches high, and blooms in 

 late summer. (Mexico.) 



S. Alberti blooms in early summer, with white flowers, and stems 

 of 4 or 5 inches. 



8. album is a typical weed of the race — really valuable, and yet 

 perfectly pestiferous in its powers of propagation ; so that, within a 

 year of receiving two squashed sprigs in a letter, you will be casting 

 it out of your garden by cartloads, and yet never seeming to see any 

 signs of clearance. Every fragment grows with fearful rapidity, forming 

 matted masses of stems beset with innumerable minute sausage-like 

 grey -green leaves ; the flower-stems rise up in profusion in June to a 

 height of 6 inches or so, and uncoil the typical radiating heads of tho 

 group, beset with white stars. It serves as the picture of many, and is 

 as hard to be got rid of as love or lime. 



8. algidum is a flat -leaved plant of the Rhodiola group, with erect 

 stems of some 6 inches, beset with flat narrow green leaves, and ending, 

 in July, with a head of pinkish blossom. 



8. allantoeides attains 6 inches, is yellowish, and comes from 

 Mexico. One should judge its leaves to bo like a sausage. 



S. alpestre is like a most inferior 8. acre, with fewer, smaller flowers, 

 packed among larger, more numerous and fatter foliage. It may be 

 seen all over the Alps. 



8. alsinaefolium is a 2-inch annual with white flowers. 



S. altissimum grows to 10 inches, with leafy stems and heads of 

 yellow flowers in later summer. It makes almost a bush on the hot 

 walls of Southern Europe. 



8. amplexicaule. — The stem-boughs of this end in a cylindrical gem- 

 bud, and tho leaves widen at tho base, to clasp the stem in a sort of 

 white sheath of membrane. Otherwise it is much like tho last. 



8. Anacampseros lios about on the Alps with long round trunks, 

 quite naked, but, towards the tips of the shoots, packed with leathery, 

 grey-green, obovato leaves, thick and floshy, the stems rising some 

 6 inches or more to show these quasi-rosottes, topped with nattish 

 domes in summer of dim purply-pink stars. 



8. Andersonii attains 1 inches, and has white flowers. 



8. anglicwm is a very pretty and choice little native — quite low and 



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