SEDUM. 



matted, with fat leaves like elongated bluish globules on the 3-inch 

 stems, that bear a branched head of rather large and most attractive 

 pearl-white stars. 



8. annuum is not only annual, but a minute yellow-flowered 

 worthlessness at that. 



S. anopetalum stands in the group of 8. altissimum and S. alpestre, 

 and is a plant of scant merit, with thin stars of pale yellow. 



8. asiaticum belongs to the Rhodiolas, and has no special value, 

 forming masses, however, with many stiff stems of 8 inches or more, 

 sturdily arising from the stock, densely set with outstanding dark green 

 narrow leaves, and ending in late summer with muffled heads of rather 

 mdetcrniinating-coloured whitish-yellow or pinkish flowers. 



8. Atlioum stands 4 inches high, and has blossoms of flushed white. 



8. atratum is the very ugly little metallic dark-tufted annual Stone- 

 crop of the high Alps, with minute flowers of dingy pallid tone. 



S. atropurpureum is a tall-growing Rhodiola of 18 inches, with heads 

 of pinkish flowers in late summer. 



S. atrosanguineum can hardly be called more than a rather slender 

 variety of the common Orpine, with erect stems beset with large 

 scattered leaves, oblong and fleshy and coarsely toothed, ending in a 

 spreading head of pink or purple bloom in late summer. But here the 

 whole plant is of dense metallic purple or brownish-black. 



8. azureu?n=S. caeruleum, q.v. 



8. Beyrichianum comes from America, and is 8 inches high, with 

 white blossoms in July. 



8. bithynicum keeps the same hours and colour, but is only half the 

 size. 



S. boloniense is a dwarf 2-inch Stonecrop of Southern Europe, with 

 yellow flowers through the summer. 



8. brevifolium has various forms, but in all is one of the race's 

 brightest jewels. It is very minutely dwarf, with bright green or pur- 

 plish little leaves, like drops of colour, packed tightly to the twisting, 

 mat -forming shoots ; the stems are about an inch high, or a trifle more, 

 bearing sprays of large oval-petalled blossoms, each distinct on its 

 tiny footstalk so as not to look crowded. In Corsica they are brilliant 

 pink, in the stony places of all the Spanish mountains they tend to be 

 pearl-white or flushed, with purple anthers, and a band of deeper colour 

 to each petal. 



S. bupleuroeides is an ugly Indian plant, in the way of S. dongatum. 



8. cacruleum is a brilliantly green little annual, with multitudes, 

 all through the summer, of small many-rayed stars of clear pale-blue, 

 unassuming but attractive. 



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