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55. Sedum bellum Rose (fig. 75). 

 5. bellum Rose MS. 



Synonym. — S. farinosum Rose in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb., 13, 297, 1911, 

 pi. 54 (not S. farinosum Lowe, Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc, 4, 31, 1831, and " Fl'. 

 Madeira," 1, 325, 1868, which is a Madeiran species allied to S. album, and not, 

 I believe, in cultivation). 



Illustration. — Rose, loc, cit. (photo). 



A distinct and attractive little plant, not to be confounded with 

 any other Mexican species. The neat, glaucous, spathulate fohage 

 and large inflorescences of white flowers give it a very pleasing 

 appearance. 



Sent under the name S. farinosum from Washington and New 

 York, and subsequently from the former under the name of S. bellum. 



Description. — A mealy-glaucous perennial. Stems nearly biennial, few, leafy 

 3-6 inches, unbranched or slightly branched, arising in spring and flowering 

 in the following spring. Leaves sessile, glaucous, entire, spathulate, flat on 

 face, convex on back, covered with minute mealy papillae when young, set at 

 right angles to the stem, up to i inch long, decreasing in size upwards and 

 passing into bracts which continue to the summits of the branches. Inflorescence 

 a flattish leafy cyme, large for the size of the plant. Buds ovate, rather acute. 

 Flowers i inch across, shorter than the pedicels. Sepals green, fleshy, separate 

 to the base, ovate-lanceolate, bluntiah, rather unequal, slightly spurred. Petals 

 spreading, white, ovate, acute, slightly wavy, twice the sepals, with a deep 

 median furrow above. Stamens spreading, shorter than the petals, filaments 

 white, anthers purple. Scales small, yellowish, emarginate. Carpels white, 

 spreading, equalling the stametis. 



Flowers March- April (gentle heat). May (cold frame). Not hardy 

 Habitat. — San Ramon mining camp, 80 miles west of Durango 

 City, Mexico. 



The name refers to its pleasing appearance. 



56. Sedum versadense Thompson (fig. 76). 



5. versadense Thompson in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 20, 23, 1911. 



Illustration. — Loc. cit. pi. 12 (photo). 



A very pretty and distinct evergreen species, easily recognized 

 by its spathulate downy leaves tipped with red at the apex and on 

 the edges, and pale rose-coloured flowers arranged in a terminal 

 cyme of 2 or 3 drooping branches. 



Description. — A tufted, downy evergreen perennial, the shoots arising in 

 autumn, growing to a height of 4-6 inches during the following season, and 

 flowering in the spring after that. Stems decumbent at the base, ascending, 

 densely hairy, glabrous in upper part, unbranched, leafy. Leaves very downy, 

 very fleshy, spathulate-cuneate, slightly spurred, with a deflexed bluntly-pointed 

 apex and sUghtly raised edges, flattish above, much rounded below, green, 

 flushed red at apex and on edges, up to i inch by J inch. Upper leaves of 

 flowering shoots smaller, narrower, more distant, subacute, glabrous, merging 

 into obovate acute glabrous bracts, one of which subtends each flower. In- 

 florescence glabrous, of 2-3 drooping secimd branches i-i J inch long. Buds rosy, 

 ovate. Flowers f inch across, the lower ones stalked. Sepals unequal, oblong- 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate-apiculate, not spurred, divided almost to the base, 

 ascending, the tips standing up between the petals. Petals oblong-lanceolate, 

 white, flushed rose in the upper portion, rose on back, deflexed, keeled, sUghtly 

 exceeding the sepals. Stamens J-f the petals, filaments white, anthers bright 



