SEDUM. 



wedge-shaped leaves, whorled in threes at the base, but growing rarer 

 and more oblong as ihey mount the stalk to where the flow er-head 

 divides into three rays, beset with white stars in early and mid- 

 summer. 



S. testaccum is another American, said to be 4 or 5 inches high, with 

 pink flowers in July. 



8. tibeticum is an Orpine from the Himalaya, with smooth stems 

 of some 6 or 10 inches, bearing lax spires and sprays of pinky-purple 

 flowers usually five-rayed, unlike those of S. quadrifidum. 



S. Treleasii comes from Mexico, blooms in August, and has yellow 

 blossoms on stems of 10 inches or a foot. 



S. tricar pum is a scatter-rayed golden-starred species from the 

 woods of Japan, rather suggesting a brilliant Chrysosplenium, and 

 with only three ovaries to each flower. 



S. trifidum stands among the very few Sedums that are exacting 

 and difficult to please. In cultivation it is both rare and cherished, 

 but quite common at mid-elevations of Kashmir and Sikkim, where 

 it grows on all the rocks and old trees of the mountain woodland. It 

 is a smooth plant of a foot high at the most, but usually much less, 

 with oblong leaves 2 or 3 inches long, irregularly waved and lobed, or 

 else regularly feathered into one or two pairs of narrow blunt lobes, 

 green, and rather shining. The flower-sprays are leafy and branched, 

 carrying pink stars in July, well spaced in the spray, each on a distinct 

 foot -stalk. 



S. tristriatum stands near to S. dasyphyllum in looks and needs and 

 habits. It is a thing of 3 inches from the upper stony places of Crete, 

 with three darker stripes on the pale petals. 



8. trullipetalum is about 5 inches high or less, with narrow outstand- 

 ing foliage packed and overlapping on the stems that end in dense 

 spires of whity-yellow flowers with a very long claw to the root of 

 the petal. The rosetted basal leaves are more ample, and there is no 

 stock. 



8. turkestanicum blooms in late summer, and should have pink 

 flowers on stems of 4 inches or so. 



8. Verloti comes from Southern Europe, attains 4 inches, and has 

 yellow flowers, but not much merit. 



8. villosum is only an annual, but a most charming jewel, here 

 and there to be seen on the damp moorland rocks of the Yorkshire 

 highlands. It makes tiny clumps of basal rosettes, built of tight, 

 tat little cylindric Leaves, green and fleshy and glandular-downy, so 

 that they are soft and velvety in effect. The stems are leafy too, 

 4 or 5 inches high, more and more glandular as they riso to where they 



