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Description. — A small, evergreen, glabrous perennial, forming a fresh green 

 mat. Stems creeping, much branched, barren shoots many, ascending, 1 to 2 

 inches long, flowering shoots a little taller. Leaves on barren shoots crowded, 

 linear, blunt, terete, spreading, spurred, J to J inch long, usually in 6 spiral rows ; 

 those of flowering shoots similar, less crowded. Inflorescence a flat-topped 

 cyme i to 2 inches across, of 3 branches with a flower in the fork. Buds ovate, 

 acute. Flowers f inch across. Sepals green, lanceolate, blunt, lobes longer than the 

 tube, persistent in fruit. Petals yellow, linear-lanceolate, acute, wide-spreading, 

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



Fig. 155. — S. sexangulare Linn. 



small, yellow. Carpels yellow, erect, tapering into the styles, equalling the 

 stamens, spreading in fruit. 



Flowers July. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Widespread in Europe. Naturalized in some places in 

 England. 



The specific name refers to the arrangement of the leaves in six 

 rows. 



130. Sedum rupestre Linn. (figs. 156, 164, a). 



S. rupestre Linn., "Species Plantarum," 431, 1753. Baker in Gard. 

 Chron. 1877, ii. 307. Masters, ibid., 1878, ii. 658. 



Synonyms. — S. elegans, Lejeune, " Flore de Spa," 1,205, 1811. S.pruinatum 

 of many British and Continental authors (not of Brotero, for which see p. 277). 



