ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 263 



The Glasnevin plant, from which my description was drawn up, 

 agrees satisfactorily with Hamet's account of the species. The 

 following differences may be noted. The spur is, according to Hamet, 

 entire and blunt; while usually so in my plant, it is sometimes 

 slightly, or even markedly, 3-lobed ; and the flowers in my plant are 

 sessile, not shortly pedicellate. With regard to the former character, 

 it is not constant in several Chinese species ; and the presence or 

 absence of pedicels is to some extent dependent on the conditions of 

 shade or exposure in which a plant grows ; sessile flowers are often 

 potentially pedicellate. The peculiar form of the placenta in S. Celiae 

 — a semiorbicular mass placed near the base of the inner face of the 

 carpel, instead of a ribbon running the length of the inner face, as 

 is usual in the genus — is found in several other small Asiatic Sedums 

 — S. Przewalskii Maximowicz, S. Fedtschenkoi Hamet, and 5. 

 Seelemanni Hamet. 



Named after Mdlle. Alice Leblanc (by inversion of the Christian 

 name). 



128. Sedum multiceps Coss. and Dur. (fig. 154). 



S. multiceps Cosson and Durieu in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France, 9, 171, 

 1862. Masters in Card. Chron. 1878, ii. 717. 



Illustrations. — Cosson, "lUustr. Flor. Atlant." 2, tab. 131. Gard. Chron., 

 1876, ii. fig. 45, repeated 1878, ii. fig. 120. 



Unmistakable among the linear-leaved hardy Sedums by reason 

 of its shrubby growth. In winter the leaves fade, all except the 

 uppermost, and form a shaggy covering on the stem. Flowers rather 

 sparingly. 



Description. — A small subdeciduous, much branched, bushy plant, 3 to 4 

 inches high. Stems grey, smooth and rooting below, shaggy with withered leaves 

 in the middle portion, densely leafy above, branches ascending or wide-spreading. 

 Leaves green, sessile, alternate, very crowded, linear-oblong, blunt, flat on face, 

 finely papillose on the edges and on the rounded back, very fleshy, J inch long. 

 Inflorescence a small, few-flowered, 3-parted cyme, borne on an erect flower-shoot 

 1-2 inches long with small, comparatively distant, leaves. Buds ovate, acute, 

 ribbed. Flowers nearly ^ inch across, sessile, usually 5-merous. Sepals green, 

 fleshy, linear, blunt. Petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, wide-spreading, 

 twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, spreading, shorter than the petals. Scales 

 small, yellowish. Carpels greenish-yellow, equalling the stamens, at first erect, 

 wide-spreading in fruit. 



Flowers July. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Algeria. 



Not infrequent in cultivation, and usually correctly named. 



The name multicefs — many-headed — refers to its branching habit. 



129. Sedum sexangulare Linn. (fig. 155). 



S. sexangulare Linn., " Species Plantarum," 432, 1753. Masters, Gard. 

 Chron. 1878, ii. 685. 



Synonyms.— 5. mite Gilibert, " Flora Lithuan.," 6, 192. S. boloniense 

 Loisel. in Desv. Journ. Bot. 2, 327, 1809 ; " Not.," 17. 5. Hillebrandii Fenzl. 



