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erect, equalling the stamens ; in fruit oblong, broadest near the tip, with a short, 

 abrupt beak. 



Flowers May-June, and often again later. 



Habitat. — Italy, Greece, Asia Minor. 



A form from the rock garden at Dahlem has very large flowers, 

 f inch across, pure white, and leaves mostly opposite ; another from 

 the same source has leaves broader and thicker than usual and | 

 inch flowers tinged purple ; a third, received from F. Sundermann, 

 of Lindau, has greenish-white flowers of the normal size (^ inch) and 

 alternate leaves. 



Named after Monte Majella in Central Italy, the original station 

 for the plant. 



72. Sedum monregalense Balbis (fig. 93). 



S. monregalense Balbis, " Miscell. Bot.," 23, 1804. Masters in Gard. 

 Chron., 1878, ii. 716. 



Synonym. — S. cruciatum Desfontaines, " Cat. Plant. Paris," 162, 1829. 

 Illustrations. — Reichenbach, " Flor. German.," 23, tab. 64a. Balbis, loc. 

 cit., tab. 6. Cusin and Ansberque, " Herb. Flor. Fran9aise," Crassul., tab. 19. 



A slender little plant, distinguished by its small oblanceolate 

 leaves in whorls of four, and lax, hairy, branching inflorescence of 

 white flowers. 



Description. — A slender, weak perennial. Stems decumbent and rooting 

 below, very erect above, the barren ones 1-2 inches high, glabrous or 

 nearly so ; flowering stems 3-5 inches, hairy in the upper part, with axillary 

 ascending branches throughout or towards the top. Leaves in whorls of 4, 

 crowded, oblanceolate, blunt, fleshy, green, smooth or slightly glandular near 

 the tip, j inch long ; those of the flower-stems similar, whorls distant, the upper 

 .ones hairy. Inflorescence a loose-panicled cyme, with alternate hairy bracts 

 and long pedicels. Buds ovate, apiculate. Flowers | inch across. Sepals 

 green, fleshy, ovate, acute, hairy. Petals white, ovate, acute, wide-spreading 

 or slightly reflexed, with a greenish hairy keel, thrice the sepals. Stamens 

 spreading, slightly shorter than the petals, anthers reddish. Scales small, 

 white. Carpels whitish, erect, nearly erect in fruit. 



Flowers July- August. 



Habitat. — South-east France, Corsica, Italy. 



Rare in cultivation. I have seen it at the Botanic Gardens at 

 Bremen and Edinburgh, and received it from the Tully Nursery, 

 Co. Kildare, in all cases under the name magellense. It succeeds 

 best in a damp, shady place. 



73. Sedum moranense H. B. and K. (fig. 94). 



5. moranense Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, " Nov. Gen. et Sp.," 6, 

 44,1823. Hemsley, "Biol. Centr.Amer., Bot.," 1,397. "N. Amer. 

 Flora," 22, 63. 



Synonyms. — S. Liebmannianum of some gardens (not of Hemsley, see p. 174). 

 S. Greggii of some gardens (not of Hemsley, which is a small yellow-flowered 

 species not in cultivation, so far as I am aware) . 



A distinct little bushy plant typically some 3-4 inches high, witii 

 much-branched wiry red stems, bare below, clothed above with small 



