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Description. — A low, glabrous, evergreen perennial, forming a pale-green 

 tuft, with barren and flowering shoots. Roots fibrous. Stems ascending, 

 rooting below, 3-6 inches high, arising mostly in summer, remaining leafy- 

 through the winter, and flowering and dying the following season. Leaves 

 sessile, temate, obovate, tapered below, rounded or blunt-pointed at apex, 

 flat, fleshy, entire, i to i inch by J to ^ inch ; those of the barren shoots largest 

 above, forming a loose rosette at the apex ; the upper leaves of the flowering 

 shoots small, alternate. Inflorescence a 3- to 4-branched cyme, branches patent, 

 each flower subtended by an obovate, rather acute, stalked bract. Buds ovate, 

 4-angled. Flowers 4-parted, J inch across, sessile. Sepals oblanceolate, blunt. 



Fig. 85. — S. lernatum Michaux. 



fleshy, separate to the base, pale green. Petals white, narrowly lanceolate, 

 acute, i^ times the sepals. Stamens spreading, equalling the sepals, filaments 

 white, anthers purple. Scales yellow, scarcely emarginate, rather longer than 

 broad. Carpels oblong, white, erect, spreading later, stellate-patent in fruit ; 

 styles J the carpels. 



Flowers May-June. 



Habitat. — United States east of the Mississippi. 



Of easy cultivation, preferring a less dry and exposed position 

 than that in which many Sedums feel at home. Not infrequent 

 in cultivation, and usually correctly named. No varieties are on 

 record, and the only one which I have seen is a very dwarf form 

 which was in Canon Ellacombe's garden without a history. It differs 

 sufficiently from the type as to deserve a name. 



