SEDUM. 



ness, thick and fleshy, with narrower-oblong and quite narrow leaves 

 warming to a powdered lilac-rose as they ascend the tiny stems towards 

 the sprays of roseate stars, delicately blending into the pink and blue 

 tones of the whole weak-stemmed clump. (Eastern Siberia, &c.) 



S. dasyphyllum is a most rare native (common in South Europe — 

 far more so, indeed, than 8. anglicum) resembling 8. brevifolium, 

 but slighter ; and the fat globules that stud the two 3-inch frail 

 stems, are of a bluish tone. The whole plant stands near 8. angli- 

 cum, but the pink or cold -white flowers are smaller and more numerous 

 on the looser spray, which is glandular-sticky towards the top, while 

 the leaves are rarer and very much fatter, like swollen grey quinine 

 capsules. 



8. debile calls itself a poor thing, not without justice. It is sadly 

 feeble, 3 or 4 inches high, with close forked sprays of yellow. 



8. divergens is a contemporary, but half a foot high, with yellow 

 blooms. 



8. diversifolium blooms in July. It is only 2 inches high, with 

 blossoms of rosy -white. 



8. Douglasii rises from quarter of a foot to 12 inches in height, with 

 flat leaves set up the stems and keeled beneath ; and with open spires 

 of yellow stars. 



8. elongatum differs in little from S. Bhodiola, but that the leaves 

 lack that plant's one attraction in their blue-grey tone. 



8. eriocarpum has flowers of dullish white all through the later 

 summer, on stems of 4 inches or more. 



S. erythranthum is a rubbish like 8. atratum. 



8. erythrostictum is nearly 2 feet high, and only greenish at that. 



8. euphorbioeides closely resembles 8. algidum , but is taller — about 

 a foot high, with leafy stems, and the yellowish flowers arranged in a 

 short spire, not in a head. 



8. Ewersii is singularly charming, with quite short and more than 

 half trailing stems of nearly a foot, set at intervals with large oval- 

 rounded smooth-edged leaves in pairs, of a lovely tone of pale pow- 

 dered blue, and in good contrast with the domes of ruby-crimson 

 blossoms in which the shoots conclude in late summer. Its range is 

 from Siberia to Kashmir : and it thrives like a weed. 



S. Fabaria is merely a weaker form of the common Orpine, S. Tele- 

 phium, with smooth carpels, and the upper leaves wedge-shaped to 

 the base, instead of oblong. 



8. farinosum comes from Madeira, and therefore is not to be too 

 blindly confided in. The plant is very lovely, and bloomed with 

 powder, about 4 inches high, with stars of white blossom. 



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