SEMPER VIVUM. 



rosettes, which are specially ample i ei illy neatly packed, of 



a fovel; >us-blue, with an abrupt dark purple tip to ea a leaf. 



B pecies or varieties, coming near this, but lacking 



•npurpled tips, ; >ttei, with even taller stems of 15 inches 



i is merely a Long r-leaved, rnoiv pointed, and expanded 



S. ealcareum) ; S. glaucum, a beautiful thing from the Simplon, with 



B of 2 or 3 inches across ; S. Schottii, from the Tyrol ; 8. atlan- 



ticum, a lonely outlier from its race on Atlas (perhaps the name 



S. (i calif ami cum " arose from a muddle between this plant, presumed 



to have something to do with the Atlantic, so that against this was 



the fact that California looks out over the Pacific, and must 



therefore have a Senipervivum of its own to match the other 



side of the Continent). 8. triste, often seen and sold, is .a garden 



form or hybrid, standing close to S. ealcareum, though rather more 



8. tectorum in the mora splayed rosette, which is here of a very 



deep and doleful metallic purple-brown that has earned the plant its 



name. 



Now we come to members of the same group, but of much smaller 

 habit and rosette. These are : S. Greenii, from the Eastern Alps, with 

 ned tips to the neat leaves of the rosette (a diminished S. cai- 

 rn, as is also S. parvulum) ; S. Verloti, a plant of Dauphine, 

 by some authorities ranked as a hybrid between S. tectorum and 

 S. montanum ; and S. Funckii, from the Tyrol — these last two lacking 

 any red tips to the leaves, and S. Funckii lvinarkable for the brilliant 

 emerald green of its rosette even hi whiter. Its flowers are enormously 

 large and wildly fringy stars of pale poor pink with a darker stripe in 

 each petal. 



Grout II. Pubescentia. — Leaves of barren rosettes downy on the 

 surface as well as being fringed as before, but without spreading tip 

 of hairs to the leaf. Parts of the red or pink flowers as before. 

 Rosettes smaller. 



8. montanum. — This is a common alpine species, with mats of 

 middle-sized glandular rosettes of a dull green, profusely emitting 

 young, and. like many another, often squeezed lopsided in their mat ; 

 and a few very big whirligig flowers of a perfectly dull and ugly dead 

 rose on stems of 6 inches or so. S. Burnati is a larger version, and 

 S. serpylli folium a tiny one, while 8. x Theobaldi is a hybrid, with 

 fern for its other parent. 



8. anomalum is a garden plant, with the leaves of the rosettes gone 

 dark. 



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