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a blunt point, erect, fleshy, reddish-green, persistent in fruit, separate nearly to 

 the base. Petals almost erect, nearly J inch long, linear-lanceolate, concave, 

 keeled, blunt, more than twice the sepals. Stamens shorter than the petals, 

 filaments pink, anthers orange- red. Scales whitish, wide-spreading, as long as 



Fig. I id. — 5. spuriutn M. B. 



broad. Carpels erect, pink or white, equalling the stamens { in fruit reddish 

 and nearly erect with spreading beaks. 



Flowers July-August. Hardy. 



Habitat;. — Caucasus and Transcaucasia. 



One of the commonest Sedums in cultivation ; and, like most of 

 the species widely spread in gardens, it possesses a multitude of names. 

 A white-flowered form of it was described as a new species — 5. opposiii- 

 foHumr— in 1816 by Sims [Bol. Mag., pi. 1807) and the name has per- 

 sisted—though challenged more than once — until Hamet finally 

 disposed of it in 1908 (" Revision des S6dums du Caucase," in Trd. Bot. 

 Soda (Tiflis), 8, part 3). Then it became confused with S. stoloni- 



