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coloured. It cannot be confused with any other garden species of 

 Sedum. It appears to be closely related to 5. Greggii, a species not 

 in cultivation so far as I am aware, though its name occurs in garden 

 lists ; the plant so named is usually S. moranense, a larger plant than 

 Greggii, and with white, not yellow, flowers. 



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

 bare, woody, and rooting below, with many short wide- spreading branches. Leaves 

 very small, closely imbricate, adpressed, very fleshy, ovate-rhomboidal, blunt, 

 flat on face, convex on back, ^V inch long. Flowers ^ inch across, sessile, borne 



Fig. 142. — 5. cupressoides Hemsley.- 



singly or 2 or 3 together at the ends of the branches. Buds lanceolate, blunt. 

 Sepals green, fleshy, lanceolate, acute. Petals bright yellow, lanceolate, acute, 

 wide-spreading, four times the sepals. Stamens nearly equalling the petals 

 wide-spreading, yellow. Scales yellow, as broad as long. Carpels yellow, erect! 

 equalhng the petals, styles long, slender. 



Flowers July (gentle heat) ; August (cold frame). Sometimes 

 survives the winter in the open in Dublin. 



Habitat. — Mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Received from Washington and Edinburgh, and also from the 

 garden of the late Sur Frank Crisp at Henley-on-Thames. 



Hemsley's figure differs somewhat from my living plants in its 

 narrower leaves, shorter sepals and petals, and shorter and more 

 erect stamens— differences probably sufficiently explained by the 

 fact that his figures were drawn from dried specimens. 



