SEDUM. 



S. sarmentosum comes from China and Siberia. It is a creeping 

 thing, about 4 inches high, with yellow flowers in summer. 



S. Selskianum is half a yard tall and has yellowish heads of blossom 

 in July. 



S. Semenowii will always bo found, most likely, to be Umbilicus 

 Semenowii, q.v. 



S. Sempervivum is also sometimes called Umbilicus or Cotyledon 

 Sempervivum, or Sedum sempervivoeides. There is no wonder that 

 this strange and brilliant plant has puzzled its god-parents. It stands 

 nearest to S. Lampusae and S. pilosum, making a big and hard rosette of 

 very fat fleshy fringed leaves, dark iron-green in colouring, deepening to 

 bronze, and with a touch of light at the top, precisely resembling that 

 of a Sempervivum of the Calcareum group, but for the much greater 

 fatness of the foliage and the more flattened outline. This rosette 

 sends up in summer a stout leafy stem of dark bronzy tone and some 

 half a foot high, more or less, breaking at the top into a wide spray of 

 bell-shaped flowers in the most dazzling shade of pure blood-scarlet, 

 vivid and velvety, standing out with double ferocity against the metallic 

 darkness of the leafage. This must be grown in the same conditions 

 as suit S. pilosum, in places of especial light and heat. It dies even 

 more certainly after flowering, and seed should be matured, collected, 

 and sown with care. Its brilliancy stands alone in the race, as does 

 that of S. pilosum in a more delicate and gentle line. But they are 

 neither of them Sedums to the eye. S. Sempervivum lives in the Alps 

 of the Levant, where it attracts so much attention that those who 

 have the mania of popular names may call it Hasereti tchitchek, if 

 they please, without further application to Wardour Street. 



S. senanense. See under S. japonicum. 



S. sexangulare is not common in England, though scattered ; 

 and nowhere truly wild. It is merely a much glorified and more 

 brilliant S. acre, with slender leaves, proportionately longer, and 

 lacking in the extreme acridity of S. acre's flavour ; it may, however, be 

 only a splendid variety. 



S. Sieboldii is an evergreen, with weaklyish stems ascending 6 or 10 

 inches. They are set with margined roundish or heart-shaped foliage, 

 standing horizontally out, and end in heads of bright pink flowers 

 spotted with green, in summer. It is a typical Rhodiola from Japan, 

 useful rather than lovely. 



S. spathulifolium has especial charm. It is a neat little clumped 

 mass, with broad fat leafage of huddled spoon-shape or rhomboidal 

 design, and powdered with a lovely bluish bloom that well enhances 

 the radiating sprays of bright golden stars that come up on pinkish 



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