SEDUM. 



half an inch Long, and ending in a head of six or eight large white 

 flowers. 



stoniae has a graceful habit, and belongs to the group of S. 

 urn, with matting stems of some 4 to 8 inches, set with perfectly 

 entin bless little obovate fringed leaves of which the lowest 



on the shoots are about an inch long. The flowers are pink and as 

 largo as those of S. spurium, with narrow pointed rays. It lives in 

 Caria, Angora, and Bithynia. 



S. littoreum is a dimly pink little annual of no merit. 



S. longipes comes from Mexico. It has yellow flowers, grows to 

 8 inches, and blooms in August.' 



S. hjdium affects mossy damp places and stream-beds at sub- 

 alpine elevations in the mountains of Lydia and Caria. It is only 

 3 or 4 inches high, forming dwarf and creeping mats of shoots very 

 thickly set with fat little cylindric leaves, and altogether after the 

 style of S. album and S. gracile, with fatter foliage than this last, 

 and the flowers borne on branching sprays so compressed and tight - 

 packed that it seems a solid head of pink stars with black anthers, as 

 large as in 8. album. Bo careful of S. lydium in lists. 



S. magellense has short tufted weakly stems of 4 inches or less, 

 more or less unbranched, and set rarely with fat and fleshy obovate 

 spoon-shaped leaves which are mostly huddled at the base ; and con- 

 cluding in an erect few-flowered spire of whitish-pink flowers, with 

 narrow pointed petals, gathered by ones or twos on erect footstalks. 

 It pervades the Eastern European region, taking its name, however, 

 from Monte Majella in Central Italy. 



S. Maximowiczii blooms in late summer and has stems of 18 inches, 

 with heads of golden yellow. 



S. maximum is a giant of 18 inches to 2 feet, with stiff stalks and 

 broad egg-shaped fat leaves, and terminal heads of whitish flowers 

 with reddish tips in August and September. Not particularly good. 



S. melUtulum is a M xican of 3 inches or so, w r ith yellowish 

 blossoms. 



S. micranthum is pink, and only 2 inches high, but has little worth. 



8. niicrostachyum is a miniature of S. Lampusae, only about 2 or 3 

 inches high. It lives in the crevices on the North side of Troodos in 

 Cyprus. 



8. Middendorffiawum has linear narrow leaves, and clusters of 

 golden blossoms, lying about on weakly shoots of 6 inches or so in 

 July. 



uds indist inguishably close to S. sexangulnre. 

 iilmium — S. anopetahim, q.v. 

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