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broader leaves marked with dark red, scarlet (not rose-coloured) 

 flowers, &c. Like pilosum, it is a biennial and comes from the 

 Caucasus. The crimson flowers are unique among cultivated Sedums. 



Description. — Biennial, pubescent, with the habit of a Sempervivum. 

 First-year stems very short, producing a single leaf-rosette, i to 2 inches across 



Fig. 165. — S. sempevvivoides Fischer. 



in second year lengthening to 6 to 12 inches and .flowering, stout, downy, red, leafy, 

 unbranched save at top. Leaves ovate, acute, sessile, very fleshy, purplish, 

 pubescent, ciliate, densely imbricated on the first-year stems, alternate and 

 distant on the flowering stems. Inflorescence a large, rather loose, leafy panicle, 

 2 to 4 inches across, with bracts resembling the leaves. Flowers \ inch long, 

 i inch across, 5-parted, pedicels equalling the flowers. Sepals erect, red, fleshy, 

 hairy, ovate, acute, separate nearly to the base. Petals bright crimson, 

 lanceolate, acute, erect below, curving outwards above, hairy on back, 2 J times 

 the sepals. Stamens erect, crimson, nearly twice the sepals. Scales small. 



