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base and produced, erect above, comp 

 acuminate, extremely succulent, smooth, rather 

 glaucous, frequently tinged with red; the lower 

 oiks turned ba^k ; when old they easily tall oft": 

 the flowers are in a terminating Bubcymed pani- 

 cle, with many-flowered branches, tor the most 

 part recurved : the Bowers erect, bright yellow. 

 Jt is a native of Europe, and is common here on 

 walls and thatched roofs, and rocks in the 

 northern counties, flowering in July. 



The ninth is a little smaller than the eighth : 

 the leaves closely imbricate (before flowering) 

 in five or six rows, glaucous, flatted a little, 

 acuminate ; on the flowering stem somewhat 

 remote, as in that sort, all erect, not bent back 

 at the point. According to Withering, the dis- 

 position of the leaves in live or six rows may 

 be best observed bv viewing the plant with the 

 ends of the branches opposed to the eye : the 

 panicle subcymed, many-flow e r ed , with the 

 branchlets scarcely reflex ed: the flowers of a 

 briglk yellow or gold colour, often six-cleft. It 

 is a native of England and Wales, &c, peren- 

 nial, flowering in July. 



This, as well as the above, is cultivated in 

 Holland and Germany to mix with lettuces in 

 salads. 



The tenth has a slender, fibrous, perennial 

 root: the stems several, a hand high, reclining 

 at the base, and then erect, round, tinned with 

 red : the leaves, ou the flowering stems, pale 

 green dotted with purple, oblong, thickish, 

 round on one side and flat on the other ; towards 

 the top, under the flowers, more swelling and 

 shorter : leaves on voung plants or barren shoots, 

 in bundles, glaucous, without anv purple dots, 

 thinner, from a narrow base widening gradually, 

 and ending in a blunt point: the stems divide at 

 top into a few branchlets, forming a sort of 

 umbel, (or rather cyme,) bearing sessile, star- 

 like white flowers, stained with pale purple from 

 a purple groove running along the petals: these 

 are six, sometimes seven in number, keeled and 

 cusped. It is a native of Spain and Carinthia, 

 flowering in July. 



The eleventh species ha? a perennial, fibrous 

 root: the stems decumbent at bottom, and there 

 throwing out fibres: flowering stems upright, 

 from three inches to a span in height, round, 

 leafy, branched, smooth: the leaves scattered 

 thinly, spreading out horizontally, sessile, cy- 

 lindrical, very blunt, smooth, fleshy, somewhat 

 glaucous and generally reddish: panicle termi- 

 nating, alternately branched, subcymose, manv- 

 Bowercd, smooth. It is a native of Europe, on 

 rocks, walls and roofs, flowering in July. 



It is eaten by some as a pickle. 



The twelfth has also a perennial, fibrous root : 

 ems numerous, growing in tufts, much 



branched, decumbent, and creeping at the 1 

 then upright, threeinches high, smooth, round,' 

 very leafy: the leaves closely imbricate, blunt, 

 rimed a little, from upright spread 

 the base : the cymes lerminatin . 

 flowered: the flowers erect, sessile. It is a na- 

 tive of Europe, flowering in Julv. 



The thirteenth species has the habit of the 

 preceding sort, but is somewhat larger: the 

 leaves are subcylindrical ; not ovate, and CO 

 out mostly by threes in a double row, and heoCe 

 appear to be imbricate in six rows ; this is i. 

 obvious in the young shoots : they are very 

 spreading, loose at the base, and scarcely gi - 

 bous: the cyme is leafy : the flowers of a gbfoeo 

 yellow colour. It is not acrid. It is a nativ 

 many parts of Europe, flowering at the end of 

 June. 



The fourteenth has an annual, fibrous mot: 

 the stems in tufts, decumbent at the base, 

 smooth, red, leafy: the leaves mostlv alternate 

 or nearly opposite, bluntish, somewhat glau- 

 cous, produced and loose at the base: the cymes 

 terminating, solitary, almost leafless, raeerned : 

 the flowers erect, live-cleft. It is a native of 

 Britain and Norway. 



The fifteenth species is also an annual plant, 

 with an erect stalk, seldom rising above two or 

 three inches high : the leaves are of a gravish 

 lour : the flowers are small and white, and grow 

 at the top of the stalk, in a reflexed spike, "it is 

 a native of the North oi Europe. 



Culture. — These plants are all raised Without 

 much difficulty, by proper care and attention to 

 have the soil dry and of the poor sandy kind. 



Culture in the Orpine sorts. — These niav all be 

 readily increased by planting cuttings, during 

 the summer months, in light mould m a shady 

 situation, or in pots placed in similar situations. 

 The plants in the open ground, as well as those 

 in pots, should be kept clean from weeds, and 

 be watered frequently when the weather 

 dry. 



They may likewise be raised by parting the 

 roots, and planting them in a suniiar manner in 

 the spring or autumn. When the plants . 

 once well established, they spread rapidly, and 

 retjuire little or no care. 



Culture in the Stonecrop kind. — These are 

 raised without much trouble, by planting out 

 their trailing s'alks in the spring or summer ? 

 son, which readily take root. They thrive n; 

 perfectly on old walls, buildings, or rock- . 

 Whcre cuttings <r roots of the perennial kinds 

 are planted ir. some Soft mud, placid upon - 



situations, they quickly take root and spread into 

 ihc different joints and crevices, covering t 

 whole in a verv short tune. 



The seeds ol the annual sorts also, when ■ 

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