SEDUM. 



with five ray- to the flower instead of six. and these more abruptly 

 pointed at their tip. The colour is a dim uncertain pink. 



8 inches high and yellow in the flowers, which it 

 produces in July and August. It comes from Mexico. 

 Uatum is a Spanish plant of no value. 

 '.losum, on the contrary, is pei of the race. 



It forms clumps of fat and densely downy rosettes exactly like those of 

 a soft and middle-sized Sempervivum, from which arise at the end of 

 May stout little trunks of 2 inches or less, very thickly set with spread- 

 ing foliage, and unfolding into a round shallow dome of the most 

 delieiously clean and crystalline soft pink, bells of waxy texture 

 and much more suggestive of a Kalanchoe from Fairyland than 

 of anything else we know in this comparatively unrefined, famil 

 generally (with handsome exceptions) to be described as " honest and 

 active but most unattractive." 8. pilosum comes from the rocks of 

 Armenia and Caucasus, &c. In cultivation such a jewel should be 

 planted in colonies in the foreground near eye-level, on a sunny ledge 

 in light and well-drained soil, with plenty of stones ; it is of quite easy 

 temper, but the flowering-trunk always dies after flowering, even 

 though it may be hoped that, as in Saxifraga Cotyledon, the lateral 

 rosettes with which it surrounds itself may survive. In any case it 

 seeds and germinates copiously, so that seed should always be 

 coming on. 



8. Pittoni is a garden form of great minuteness, being only a bare 

 inch high, with white galaxies in July. 



S. populifolium is an exceptional Orpine, with many weakly purple 

 stems of a foot, set with long leathern leaves like a Poplar's, ending 

 in hawthorn-scented roundish heads of pinky-white flowers from May 

 to September. It is very useful, but by no means devoid of brilliance, 

 elegance, and charm. (Siberia.) 



8. potosinum comes from Mexico, and is 4 inches high, with 

 yellowish flow< I 



8. primvloeide8 is a most curious and rather pretty species, recently 

 introduced from China, but named, as it seems to me, with a quite 

 singular disregard for propriety of comparison. It makes low huddled 

 wide bushes of 2 or 3 inches high and many more across, of shoots close- 

 packed with fat oval-pointed leaves, flatfish and grooved, of dark 

 Hie tone that excellently throws up the white flowers that appear to 

 sit singly in the ends of the shoots, and are closed pointed bells almost 

 -ting single blooms of some Bell Heather, though the descrip- 

 tion of it by the advertiser as being like a i: glorified "White Heather" 

 is ah. misleading than its specific name, as suggesting long 



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