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reddish, broader than long. Carpels crimson, erect, equalling the stamens 5 

 spreading in fruit. 



Flowers June- July. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Asia Minor and Caucasus. Now found in most good 

 collections. 



The specific name emphasizes the plant's resemblance to a 

 Semper vivum. 



138. Sedum pilosum M. B. (fig. 166). 



S. pilosum Marschall von Bieberstein, " Flor. Taurico-Caucas. "1, 352, 

 1808. Boissier, "Flor. Orient.," 2, 786. Hamet in Trd. 

 Bot. Sada (Tiflis), 8, pt. iii. 28. 



Synonym. — 5. Regelii (a nomen nudum) of gardens. 



Illustrations. — M. von Bieb., " Cent. Plant." tab. 40. Bot. Mag., pi. 8503. 

 Card. Chron. 191 1, i. fig. 160. 



A remarkable and showy little biennial plant, with a wealth of 

 rose-pink blossoms. The dense, hairy rosettes of the first year's 

 growth closely resemble those of a Sempervivum, but in the second 

 and final year the five-parted flowers with free petals and ten 

 stamens, though in shape recaUing those of a Crassula. show where 

 its affinities lie. 



Description. — Biennial, forming in the first year a dense subglobular 

 rosette of downy, incurved leaves. Flower-stem erect, 2 to 4 inches long, leafy, 

 much branched above. Leaves of rosette linear-spathulate, bluntly pointed, 

 hairy, sessile, very fleshy, dark green, densely imbricate, about J inch long ; 

 those of the flowering stems larger, } indi long, | inch broad, oblong- 

 obovate. Inflorescence a dense, much- branched, panicled cyme, ij to 3 inches 

 across, surface convex. Flowers | inch long, J to | inch across, longer than the 

 pedicels. Sepals erect, Unear, acute, not contiguous, downy, dark green, separate 

 nearly to the base. Petals erect below, wide-spreading above, oblong, acute, 

 rose-coloured, downy on back, ^ longer than the sepals. Stamens equalUng 

 the sepals, anthers reddish or yellowish. Scales minute, oblong, colourless. 

 Carpels erect, green, equalling the stamens, styles red. Fruit stellate-patent. 



Flowers May- June. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Asia Minor, Caucasus. 



Though described as long ago as 1808, the plant only recently came 

 into cultivation, and was unknown in our own country untU 1910, when 

 seeds were distributed by Regel and Kesselring of Petrograd. The 

 species is, unfortunately, only biennial, but the seeds germinate 

 freely. A dry niche suits it well. 



The name pilosum refers to the hairy nature of the plant.. 



139. Sedum indlcum Hamet (figs. 167, 168). 



S. indicum var. genuinum Hamet in Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. , 5, 

 115, 1912. 



Synonyms. — Cyasiw/a tV^itca Decaisne in Jacquemont, " Voyage dans I'lnde," 

 4 (Botanique), p. 61, tab. 61, fig. i. Hooker fil. and Thompson in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc.f{Bot.), 2, 90. Clarke in Hooker, "Flora Brit. India," 2, 413. Sedum 

 paniculatum Wallich Cat., No. 7227. 



Illustration. — Jacquemont, loc. cit. 



