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S E D 



SEA PINK. See Cerastiom. 



SEA PURSLANE. See Atuii-lex. 



SEA-SIDE GRAPE. See Coccoloba. 



SEA LAUREL. See Xvi.ofhvlla. 



SEA PIGEON-PEA. See Sofhoba. 



SEAL, SOLOMON'S, See Convallaria. 



SEDUM. a genus containing plants of the 

 hardy herbaceous succulent kind. 



ft belongs to the class and order Dccandria 

 igynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Siuciii'-riLe. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a five- 

 cleft perianth, acute, erect, permanent: the 

 corolla has five petals, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 flat, spreading: nectaries five; each a very small 

 emarginate scale, inserted into each germ at the 

 base on the outside : the stamina have ten awl- 

 shaped filaments, length of the corolla : 

 anthers roundish: the pistillum has five oblong 

 germs, ending in more slender styles : stigmas 

 obtuse: the pericarpium five capsules, spreading, 

 acuminate, compressed, emarginate towards the 

 base, opening on the inside longitudinally by a 

 suture: the seeds numerous, very small. 



The species cultivated are: 1. S. Telephium, 

 Orpine Stonecrop; 2. S. Anacampseros, Ever- 

 green Orpine ; 3. S. Aizoon, Yellow Stonecrop ; 

 4. S. populijblinm, Poplar-leaved Stonecrop; 

 l>. S. stellatum, Starry Stonecrop; 6. S'. Cepcea, 

 Purslane-leaved Stonecrop ; 7- $. dasyphyllum, 

 Thick-leaved Stonecrop ; 8. S. reflexum, Yellow 

 Stonecrop ; 9. S. rupestre, Rock Stonecrop ; 

 10. S. Fiispanicum, Spanish Stonecrop; 11.- S. 

 album, White Stonecrop; 12. S. acre, Biting 

 Stonecrop, or Wall Pepper; 13. S.sexangulare, 

 Insipid Stonecrop ; 14. S. Anglicum, English or 

 Mild White Stonecrop; 15. S.annumn, Annual 

 Stonecrop. 



The first has a perennial tuberous root : the 

 stems from one to two feet high and upwards, 

 upright, simple or unbranched, leafy, round, 

 smooth, solid, reddish and often dotted with 

 red : the leaves almost covering the stem, sessile, 

 ovate, fleshy, tooth-serrate, smooth and even, 

 of a blueish green colour: the corymbs termi- 

 nating, many-flowered, close or heaped together: 

 the flowers deep purple, very rarely white in this 

 climate, though that seems to be the most com- 

 mon colour in some foreign countries. It is a 

 native of Portugal. 



There are several varieties, as with purple 

 flowers, with white flowers, with broad leaves, 

 and the Greater Orpine. 



The second species has fibrous perennial 

 roots : the stems trailing : the leaves standing 

 alternate round the stems, almost an inch long, 

 and half an inch broad : the flowers in a com- 

 pact corymb, sitting close on the top of the 

 stem: they are star-shaped, of a purple colour, 



and appear in July. It is an evergreen ; and a 

 native of Germany. 



The third his a perennial root, composed of 

 many thick fleshy fibres, from which come out 

 several stalks rising near a foot high : the leaves 

 are alternate on every side, thick, two inches 

 and a half long, and three quarters of an inch 

 broad, and slightlv serrate : the flowers bright 

 yellow. It is a native of Siberia, flowering from 

 July to September. 



The fourth species has the leaves cordate, 

 thick and fleshy : the stem herbaceous, branched, 

 erect, patulous, even, a foot high : the leaves 

 alternate, remote, only at the ramifications, 

 blunt, fleshv, smooth. When it grows in an 

 open situation, exposed to the sun, the leaves 

 and stalks become of a bright red colour. It is 

 a native of Siberia, and the onlv hardy Sedum 

 cultivated with us that has a shrubby stalk : the 

 leaves are deciduous. It flowers in July and 

 August, and is proper for a rock plant. 



The fifth is a low annual plant : the stalks rise 

 three inches high, dividing at top into two or 

 three parts : the flowers come out singly from 

 the side of the stalk; are white, star-pointed, 

 and succeeded bv star-pointed rough capsules. 

 It is a native of Germanv, 8cc. 



The sixth species has also an annual root : the 

 stalks six or seven inches high, dividing into 

 smaller branches, which sustain small white 

 flowers growing in large panicles. It is a na- 

 tive of Germany, France, &c. 



There is a variety which has the stem more 

 erect, and the lower leaves in threes or fours, 

 the next opposite, and the uppermost alternate. 



The seventh has a perennial (biennial) root, 

 composed of small white fibres : the stems nu- 

 merous, weak, prostrate and creeping, about 

 three inches long or somewhat more, branched, 

 in tufts, round, weak, clammy, leafv : the 

 flowering branches erect : the leaves mostly op- 

 posite, closely imbricate, sessile, very thick and 

 fleshy, broader than long, convex on the lower, 

 nearly plane on the upper surface, glaucous 

 often with a tinge of purple ; dotted and some- 

 times having a net of red veins : on the flower- 

 ing branches they are alternate. It is a native 

 of many parts of Europe, as France, &c. 



When introduced into a garden, it propagates 

 itself freely upon walls, in waste places, and 

 about garden pots ; and no plant is better 

 adapted to the purpose of decorating rock-work, 

 as it grows without any trouble, in anv aspect, 

 multiplying very much by young shoots, and 

 always looks beautiful. 



The eighth species has also a perennial root : 

 the stems round, leafy, branched at the base, 

 often hanging down, erect at the top ; the leaves 

 scattered, alternate, adnate-sessile, loose at the 



