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account of the cultivated Stonecrops, but states that he had not seen 

 it, and, as the name is sometimes applied in catalogues to other species, 

 the plant cannot be accepted as formerly in English gardens. The 



Fig. 149. — S. japonicum Siebold. 



following description is condensed from Miquel and Maximowicz 

 {loc. cit.) and the figure is taken from Makino {loc. cit.). 



Description. — A glabrous, creeping.evergreen perennial. Stems rooting below, 

 round, smooth, with ascending barren and flowering branches, 4 to 6 inches high, 

 the former usually the taller. Leaves alternate, J inch long, twice as long as 

 the intemodes, linear-oblong, obtuse, sessile, semiterete, shortly spurred. In- 



