SEDUM. 



S. caUichroum is a dainty small plant like 8. anglicwn, but rather 

 frailer, and with rosy flowers, keeled with purple. It forms pleasant 

 colonies beside the springs, and in damp places, high up in the Alps 

 of Pi : 



S. carpathicum flowers in August, white, on 10-inch stems. 



(8. spathulatuM, W.K.), makes long narrow spires of 

 pinkish -while blossoms in July, on weak stems of some 6 inch< •-. 

 with stalked leaves either opposite or in whorls. It has no notable 

 merit, and abounds in stony places of the mountain region all over 

 Europe to the Levant. 



8. Clusianum blooms in June. It is a plant of 2 inches, from the 

 Abruzzi, with white stars. 



flf. coUinum=S. rupestre. 



mpactum, from Mexico, makes a mass a third of an inch high, 

 with golden flov. 



S. confertiflorum has neither beauty, permanence, nor value. 



8. coriaceum grows about 10 inches high, with lax sprays of pinky- 

 purple. It is a Himalayan plant in the group of >S r . Rhodiola. 



S. corsicum is a form of S. dasyphyllum — usually the distinct 

 variety 8. d. glandvliferum. 



S. crassipes is an uglyish Himalayan Rhodiola about a quarter of a 

 foot tall, with heads of pinkish green from June through late summer. 



8. crenatum stands quite close to 8. spurium.. but is wholly hairless 

 and has blunt pink petals longer in proportion to their calyx. 



S. crenalatuui is an Indian Rhodiola, with specially dense cymes of 

 pink or purple flowers, at the top of erect stems beset with white- 

 margined large-toothed leaves, scalloped along the edge. 



8. creticum is a monocarpic species in the lovely line of 8. pilosum, 

 making House-leekish rosettes, 2 or 3 inches across, almost from the 

 base branching into a great dome of nearly globular pink flowers that 

 never open out their glandular petals. (From the lower stony places 

 of On 



8. Crista-galli is only a cockscomb-leaved form of S. rupestre, very 

 monstrous and frightful. 



S. cruciutum has stems of 8 inches, and whitish flowers in July. 



8. cupressoeides stands 6 inches high, has pinky-white flowers, 

 omes from Mexico. 



8. cyanewn takes its name, not from the flowers (which are pinkish 

 instead of the rich sky-blue that one had hoped), but from the no less 

 lovely glaucous-blue tones of the little many-stemmed 3-inch tuffet, 

 tinted with a soft lilac bloom at the top of the blue stems that spring 

 from oblong-obovau- basal leaves almost arranged in rosettes of blue- 



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