ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 169 



only the flowering ones perish out year by year, exactly as in Saxifraga 

 Cotyledon." 



Named after its first collector, L. Chanet. 



70. Sedum alsinefolium Allioni (fig. 92). 



5. alsinefolium Allioni, " Flor. Pedemont.,"2, 119, tab. 22, fig. 2, 1785. 

 Masters in Gard. Chron., 1878, ii. 750. 



Illustrations. — Allioni, loc. cit. (poor). Cesati, " Stirpes Ital." fasc. 2 (good). 



An extremely distinct species, which one would not suspect of 

 being a Sedum when out of flower, the small, tufted hairy rosettes 

 suggesting rather a Saxifrage. Hairy throughout, even to the back 

 of the petals, which are of unusual breadth. It is not to be mistaken 

 for any other species, its leaves, inflorescence, and flowers being all 

 very distinct (see fig. 92). 



Description. — A small tufted perennial, dark green, shining, hairy, sticky. 

 Barren shoots short, forming close, flattish rosettes an inch across ; flowering 

 shoots 4-6 inches high, slender and weak, with spreading branches. Leaves 

 of barren shoots stalked, fleshy, hairy on both sides, ^— f inch long ; the petiole 

 half the ovate entire lamina, which is bluntly pointed at apex and tapered below ; 

 leaves of the flowering shoots larger and more distant, the upper ones sessile. 

 Inflorescence a very lax panicle. Buds oblong-ovate, apiculate. Flowers 

 comparatively few and small, J inch across, on long pedicels. Sepals erect, 

 green, hairy, fleshy, lanceolate, acute. Petals nearly erect in lower part, patent 

 above, thrice the sepals, white, broadly ovate, apiculate, hairy on back. Stamens 

 erect, shorter than the petals, filaments white, anthers pinkish. Scales bright 

 red. Carpels green, erect, equalling the stamens, styles divergent. 



Flowers June- July. 



Rare in cultivation. I have seen it at Glasnevin (whither the late 

 C. F. Ball brought it from the Alps), Kew, and Edinburgh ; M. 

 CORREVON sent it to Wisley, and Masters enters it in 1878 as seen by 

 him in the living state, presumably in a garden. Rare in the wild 

 state, being confined to Piedmont, the Alpes Maritimes, and Liguria. 

 In my garden I found protection from slugs was desirable. 



The name comes from the likeness of its leaves to those of an 

 Alsine. 



71. Sedum magellense Tenore (fig. 91, lower part). 



5. magellense Tenore, Flor. Napolitana, 1, xxvi. 1811-15. 



Synonym. — 5. olympicum Boissier, " Diagnoses Plant. Nov.," Ser. i, 3, 16, 1843. 

 Illustrations. — Tenore, loc. cit., tab. 139, fig. i. Raulin, " Crete," tab. 13, 

 fig. c. Yerh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 16, tab. 9-10, 1866. 



A very distinct little plant, known at once by its racemose 

 inflorescence, which is 1-2 inches long and only about \ inch 

 broad, and its bright green, flat, obovate leaves J inch long on the 

 barren shoots. The oblong carpels, too, are very unusual. There 

 is some variation as regards the flowers, which are sometimes pure 

 white, or have a greenish or purplish tinge, and are larger in some 

 forms than in others. 



