ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 221 



both in having opposite leaves; from the former also in its flat 

 (not subterete) leaves and yellow (not white) flowers ; from the latter 

 in its smaller, thicker leaves and wide-spreading (not nearly erect) 

 shorter petals. 



Description.— A small, creeping, glabrous, evergreen perennial. Stems 

 slender, prostrate, rooting, with barren and flowering ascending reddish branches • 

 barren branches many, leafy, 2 to 3 inches, flowering stems 3 to 6 inches with larger 

 similar leaves. Leaves opposite, smooth, green, often flushed red i by i inch 

 or a httle more, half as thick as broad, very fleshy, sessile, obovat'e to obovate- 

 spathulate, rounded at apex or with a blunt point on the under side those of the 

 flowenng shoots often alternate. Inflorescence of 2 (sometimes 3) once or twice 

 forked branches, with flowers in the forks, flattish, not very dense 1-2 inches 

 across, branches ascending in fruit. Buds ovate, bluntly pointed, strongly 

 nbbed. Flowers f inch across, longer than the pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped 

 lobes triangular acute, fleshy, pale-green or reddish, separate nearly to the base. 

 Petals bnght yellow, patent, oblong-lanceolate, acute, thrice the sepals, keeled on 

 back deeply grooved on face. Stamens yellow, wide-spreading, equalling the 

 petals Scales very small, retuse. yellow to orange. Carpels greenish, shorter 

 than the stamens, tapering into the slender styles, at first erect, soon spreading. 



Flowers June. 



Habitat.— Western N. America from Oregon to British Columbia. 



I have had in cultivation two wild gatherings sent from British 

 Columbia, and also garden plants from about a dozen sources. The 

 species appears very constant in its characters. 



102. Sedum Stahlii Solms (fig. 127). 



S. Siahlii Solms, "Samml. Bot. Gart. Strassburg," 1900, 4. " N. 

 Amer. Flora," 22, 66. 



Illustrations.— Bo/. Mag., pi. 7908. " Gartenwelt." 8, 6, 1904 (photo). 



Though described less than twenty years ago, this species is 

 ah-eady very widely spread as a greenhouse plant. It cannot be 

 confounded with any other Sedum, its rather large, egg-shaped, downy, 

 red-brown opposite leaves being alone sufficient to distinguish it! 

 These leaves fall off easily, and young plants arise from them very 

 readily. 



Description.— Evergreen perennial, finely downy. Stems many, erect or 

 spreading slender, woody below. 4 to 8 inches long, seldom branched save at the 

 hase finely hairy above. Leaves opposite, egg-shaped, slightly flattened on face, 

 rvSi nf^Zrl' ?k'^ downy, about i by i by i inch. Inflorescence a termina 

 cyme of 2 to 3 forked branches with flowers in the forks, 2 inches across, leafy with 

 bracts siimlar to the stem-leaves but smaller. Buds lanceolate, rather acute 

 nbbed. Flowers suhsessile. J inch across. Calyx bell-shaped, nearly erect' 

 sepals green, fleshy, hairy, lanceolate, free nearly to the base. Petals yellovr' 

 ^ce the sepals, lanceolate, shortly acuminate, wide-spreading in upper part' 

 Stamens yellow, erect, slightly shorter than the petals. Scales small yellow' 



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Flowers August-September (cold frame). Hardy at Cork (R H 

 Beamish). Warley (Miss Willmott), Waltham Cross (E. A. Bowles) 

 and Rostrevor (Sir John Ross). Nearly hardy at Dubhn. 



Habitat.— Puebla, Mexico. 



Named after Professor Ernst Stahl of Jena. 



