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green, scarcely glaucous, not suffused with red when old. Inflorescence 

 larger. 



No doubt a wild American form, as Sedums, being increased by 

 division in most cases, do not tend to give garden sports. Received 

 as " Sedum ' W. Pascoe ' — S. spathuUfolium x ohtusatum," from Messrs. 



Fig. 138. — S. SpathuUfolium Hooker. 



Stormonth (but it has no obtusatum blood in it); as "S.' spathuUfolium 

 ' Wansfell ' var." from Mr. Walpole, of Mount Usher, Co. Wicklow ; 

 and as S. spathuUfolium from several other sources. 



Var. purpureum var. nov.* 



Rosettes large, ij to 2 inches across, leaves deep-purple except 

 when young, when they are white and mealy, inflorescence large. 



• Rosulae amplae, folia atropurpurea, folia juvenia farinosa, inflorescentia 

 ampla. 



