SEDUM. 



S. Stephani is a dwarf er S. Rhodiola with longer flowers and narrower 

 less-toothed leaves. 



S. Steudelii is of no special value. 



8. stoloniferum {S. ibericum) stands near 8. spurium, but lives on 

 damp rocks in Pontus, Caucasus, and Persia, where it freely flounders 

 with its long rooting stems, with blunt rhomb -wedge-shaped leaves, 

 with wavy scalloping at their edge, ending in lax, leafy, and divergent- 

 sprayed heads of similar pink flowers, narrow and pointed in the star, 

 but a little smaller than in S. spurium. 



8. subulatum comes near S. acutifolium, but has slenderer, smooth, 

 cylindric leafage of glaucous-blue tone. The stems are 3 or 4 inches 

 high, and the sprays of the flower-heads are so condensed that there 

 seems to be a rather close head of white blossoms, of oblong blunt 

 petals, running to a little point, and connected with one another at 

 the very base. (Stony places of Transcaucasia, &c.) 



S. telephioeides comes from Siberia, and, when it has so frankly 

 acknowledged that it is exactly like S. Telephium, no catalogue need 

 be at the pains to say much more. 



S. Telephium is the Common Orpine, standing as a useful type for 

 many a useful and charmless species in the race. The stiff stems are 

 a foot high or more, several from a hardened stock, and set with 

 scattered oblong or obovate leaves, large, and leathery-fleshy, and 

 dark green, fiercely waved and toothed at the edge. At the top the 

 stem branches into a spraying head, not a tight dome, of more or less 

 purplish flowers. It blooms in later summer, and might without 

 difficulty be more effective than it is, the habit being a trifle rank, and 

 the bloom neither bright nor beautiful. There are many varieties, some 

 with foliage empurpled to enhance the gloom of the blossom, and 

 8. Fabaria, Koch, is simply a slenderer state of the species ; which is 

 abundant on English rocks and walls and hedgerows, and often as 

 an escape from cultivation, being a plant that it is impossible to 

 kill ; so that, cultivated for many centuries, every scrap cast out 

 into the world has rooted for itself and made fresh colonies. 



S. tenellum differs for the worse from S. lydium. It has the same 

 habit, dwarf and neat, but with shorter, broader leaves, and the 

 flowers rather smaller, white inside at first until the outward flush 

 gains the ulterior also . The petals are hardly longer than the elongated 

 calyx-segments, and the stars are borne not in scorpion-tail branches, 

 but gathered into what seems a much denser head. It is a pervasive 

 commonplace of the Persian Alps and Caucasus. 



8. ternatum belongs to the rocky woods from Connecticut to 

 Georgia. &c. Its stems are from 3 to 7 inches, studded with flat 



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