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obtuse tip, greenish-white, wide-spreading. Stamens slightly exceeding the 

 petals, spreading, filaments greenish, anthers yellow. Scales small, quadrate, 

 greenish. Carpels erect, slender, greenish, equalling the petals. 



Flowers July- August. Hardy. 



Habitat. — S. Europe, N. Africa, Asia Minor. A familiar plant 

 round almost the whole of the Mediterranean basin. 



It is suitably named aliissimum (very tall), the flower-stems 

 being usually longer than those of any other member of the rupesire 

 group. 



133. Sedum anopetalum "DC. (figs. 160, 164,0). 



S. anopetalum De Candolle " Rapports Voyages," 2, 80, 1808. Baker 

 in Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 462. Masters, ibid. 1878, ii. 626. 



Synonyms. — S. elongatum of gardens (not of Wallich, for which see p. 41). 

 S. ochroleucum of Chaix (not of Villar, which = altissimum, see p. 270). 



Illustrations. — De Candolle, " Mem. Crassul.," pi. 8. Reichenbach, 

 " Flor. German.," 23, tab. 59. Cusin and Ansberque, " Herb. Flor. Fran9aise, 

 Crassul.," tab. 33. 



A Species well marked when in flower, but without flower often 

 impossible to distinguish from small forms of S. reflexum. In bud, 

 flower, or fruit it may be known from all other species of the rupestre 

 section by its long lanceolate sepals, which in fruit have the outer 

 face concave. It differs from rupesire in its almost terete (not flat) 

 leaves, and from both reflexum and rupesire in its inflorescence erect 

 in bud. In this latter respect it agrees with altissimum, but that 

 species has lanceolate (not linear), flattened, larger leaves. The 

 flowers of anopetalum are usually whitish, like those of altissimum ; 

 but bright-yellow forms, as in reflexum and rupestre, are not uncommon. 

 The inflorescence remains flat in bud, flower, and fruit, while in reflexum, 

 rupestre, and altissimum it is very convex in bud and very concave in 

 fruit. 



Description. — A glabrous, evergreen perennial, creeping, forming a low 

 green or glaucous mat often tinged red. Stems many, much branched and 

 rooting below, with ascending barren and flowering shoots, the former i to 4 inches, 

 the latter 6 to 9 inches high. Leaves of barren shoots crowded, ascending, | inch 

 long, hnear, apiculate, slightly flattened above, slightly spurred at base, some- 

 times arranged in 6 or more rows ; those of the flowering stems larger, | inch 

 long, more distant, more distinctly spurred. Inflorescence a flat compact C)nne 

 about I inch across, of about 5 forked branches with a central flower, leafy, 

 flattish, and erect in bud and in fruit. Buds ovate-oblong, ribbed, acute. Flowers 

 I inch long. Sepals long, lanceolate, green, erect, acute, separate nearly to the 

 base, persistent in fruit, when they have a median depression. Petals narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute, keeled, grooved on face, erect or spreading, seldom widely 

 open, whitish, rarely bright yeUow, twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, equalling 

 the petals. Scales small, whitish. Carpels shorter than the petals, slightly 

 shorter than the stamens, erect, greenish, erect also in fruit ; styles divergent. 



Flowers June-July. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Central and Southern Europe from Spain eastward ; 

 Asia Minor. 



Among some fifty selected plants of anopetalum in my garden, 

 derived from as many sources, native and cultivated, the following 

 variations are noticeable: (i) size, from smaU forms with barren 



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