SEDUM. 



8. fastigiatwm is a larger-flowered £. quadrifidum — a plant of many 

 stems of 2 or 5 inches, with close-set cylindric little leaves on the shoots 

 and none on the branches, which carry from one to five red flowers, 

 often with only four rays. (Arctic Russia.) 



S. Forsterianum is a most doubtful name, representing some 

 small local or climatic variation of S. rupestre. 



S. gelndum suggests a quite dwarf neat S. Rhodiola, differing from 

 S. quadrifidum in having flat oblong little leaves, often toothed, and 

 much smaller than in S. Rhodiola, but with the same rose-scented 

 sweet fat rootstock, emitting slight flopping stems of 2 inches or so, 

 that end in heads of yellow flowers, purpled at the petal-tips. 



S. gemmiferum produces blossoms of brilliant fine pink, on shoots of 

 4 inches, in July and August. 



S. glandulosum is a neat and dwarf Sardinian, with pink-white 

 stars on sprays of 2 inches high or so, in Juno. 



8. glaucum, sometimes called S. hispanicum, because it is never 

 found in Spain, is more or less of an annual, with one-sided sprays of 

 specially creamy flower with black anthers and six petals, pointed and 

 starry. The whole plant is 2 or 3 inches high. 



S. gracile stands not far away from S. album, making the same dense 

 masses of shoots, packed with the same cylindric green leaves, which 

 here are much larger though the stems are much shorter — not more 

 than 3 or 4 inches high, and densely leafy, smoothand green and matted, 

 sending out lax starry heads of three to five rays that bear white 

 flowers with red anthers. It is found in dampish stony places high in 

 the Alps of Asia Minor. 



S. Greggii declares its height to be a foot, and its flowers yellow, 

 and its home to be Mexico. 



S. Griffithii makes a weak and hairless clump, springing from a 

 rosetted basal turret with perfectly narrow leaves on the stems of 

 6 or 9 inches, unlike those of 8. adenotrichum, though it has the same 

 sharp-pointed whity-pink petals, but the flowers are borne in a rather 

 dense spire, involved in leafy bracts. 



S. Grisebachii has no attractions. 



S. gypsicola has no more. 



8. hnematodes offers finer things in its name than its pallid bloodless 

 tints perform. It grows a foot high, and is a stiff leafy thing with 

 flowers in heads of dim and indeterminate pinkishness. 



S. heterodontum is a small Indian Rhodiola, with stems of 2 inches 

 or so from the fat stock, beset with ample margined leaves with deep 

 sharp toothing at their edge, and ending in very dense heads of pink 

 or white blossom in July. 



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