SEDUM. 



S. multiceps produces many heads of white flowers on 3-inch stems 

 in August and September. 



8. nanum is without worth. 



8. neapolitanum has stems of 2 inches all the summer through, 

 with flower-stars of clear bright pink. 



8. neglectum is one of the yellow-headed kind, about 4 inches high, 

 like 8. acre, and blooming all the summer. 



8. nevadense is a diminished version of 8. villosum, q.v. 



8. Nevii makes a spreading tuft of 3 inches or half a foot, with 

 alternate leaves, and three divergent rays to the flower-heads, and 

 these are set densely with pointed-petalled white stars in summer. 



8. nicaeense is a pale-yellow Sexangulare of no special charm. 



8. obtusatum makes notably brilliant little clumps and masses of 

 leaves which are packed bulging ovals or rhombs of brilliant succulent 

 emerald in early summer, on stems of bronzy crimson, a tone which 

 in ever-increasing fire gradually gains the whole plant, lasting through 

 the winter, and in summer contrasts well with the golden blossoms in 

 their rayed heads on stems of 3 inches or so in July. An American, 

 like 8. Nevii. 



8. obtusifolium makes a hardened stock from which issue short green 

 stems of 2 or 3 inches, smooth and green and fat, closely packed to 

 the tips with amply obovate blunt small red-veined leaves a trifle 

 scalloped at their edge, and diminishing in size to the tip of the shoots, 

 where the flowers are loosely borne on two or three divergent sprays, 

 being pointed-rayed stars of white. (Caucasus, &c.) 



8. ochroleucum is little more than 8. anopetalum, q.v. 



8. olympicum only differs from 8. magellense in having narrower 

 leaves ; it is an Eastern development of the species. 



8. oppositifolium is almost exactly S. spurium, but the pinkish -white 

 petals are broader and less pointed, and the leaves, in their pairs, are 

 blunter at the end. (From the stony high places of Caucasus and 

 Persia.) 



8. oregonum has erect stems of half a foot or less, beset with 

 narrow foliage of brilliant green, and ending with heads of yellowish- 

 pink. 



8. ovatum is whitish in the bloom, and about 6 inches in the stem. 



S. oxypetalum stands 8 inches high, has yellow flowers in July, and 

 comes from Mexico. 



8. pachyphyllum is a compatriot of the same stature, but produces 

 its pink bloom a month later. 



8. palaestinum has neither use nor merit. 



8. pallidum stands close to 8. glaucum, but has smaller flowers, 

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