SEDOI. 



airy spikes of white small blossoms, instead of the solitary bells 

 snuggling here and there in the low wide mass of sombre foliage. It 

 grows readily and is quite hardy, but not always. I think, particularly 

 generous of its blossom. And see Appendix for others. 



S. pruinatum is a valuable Sexangulare-Sedum from Spain, with 

 fine blue-grey foliage, and spreading heads of golden bloom in summer 

 on stems of 8 inches or so ; for a hot dry rock. 



S. pruinosum is still finer, being a glorified S. ru pest re from Italy, 

 with glaucous-blue cylindric leaves standing closely up the 8-inch 

 stems, which end in gracefully uncurling scorpion-tails of bright gold 

 stars. 



S. pulchdlum has a singular beauty, following these last in style, 

 but with foliage of bright succulent green, and unrolling scorpion 

 heads of lovely rose-pink flowers that continue far on into the late 

 autumn and even to the winter. It comes from rocky places in 

 Virginia and Georgia, and was long found a disappointing surprise 

 in the indestructible wiry section of the race to which it seems to 

 belong. For it throve but feebly and hnpernianently in the nice hot 

 dry suntraps considered essential to its kin. But the truth of the matter 

 is that this species — so Rupestrish in look, had it not that warning lush 

 greenness — is really addicted to damp and rather cool hollows ; accord- 

 ingly, in underground-watered beds, or at the edge of tap or pool, it 

 will prosper most heartily, and flower freely, and continue in comfort 

 from year to year, now that it is no longer to be starved and baked to 

 death on the arid and blazing rocks that make the life of so many 

 other species in this group. 



S. purpurascens is another gloomy and unattractive Orpine, with 

 stems of 15 inches or so, set with toothed oval leathern leaves of bronzy 

 tone, and ending in heads of dowdy pink-purple flowers in late summer. 



S. purpureum is yet another, being a variety of S. Tele phi urn itself. 

 from Siberia, with the whole plant of deep purplish colouring. 



8. quadrifidum is a many-stemmed stiff Rhodiola of -i or 5 inches, 

 thick with almost cylindric leaves on the shoots, and then with leafless 

 branches carrying from one to five red flower-stars, that often have 

 only four rays, to justify the name. (Arctic Russia, &c.) 



S. reflexum stands extremely close to S. glaucum and 8. rupestre, 

 but is rather larger in all its parts than the last, with bigger flowers 

 looser on their sprays. Li England the pseudo-wild species (a rare 

 " escape ") may be known by the down -turned leaves on the flowering 

 shoots. 8. glaucum occurs in the South, and has more erect and 

 spreading foliage and flower* in a paler shade of golden yellow. 



S. repens=S. alpestre, q.v. 



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