PLATE LII. 



1. SEDUM ANACAMPSEROS. 



EVERGREEN ORPINE. 



V* 



THIS genus contains plants of the hardy herbaceous succulent 

 kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Decandria Pentagynia, and 

 ranks in the natural order of Succulents. 



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: an- 

 thers 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 nume- 

 rous, very small. 



The species cultivated are 1. <S. Telephium, Orpine Stonecrop; 

 2. S. Anacampseros, Evergreen Orpine; 3. S. Aizoon, Yellow Stone- 

 crop; 4. S. populifolium, Poplar-leaved Stonecrop; 5. S. stellatum, 

 Starry Stonecrop ; 6. S. Cep&a, Purslane-leaved Stonecrop ; 7- S, 

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

 crop; 9- S. rupestre, Rock Stonecrop; 10. S. Hispanicum, 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. annuum, 

 Annual Stonecrop. 



The first has a perennial tuberous root: the stems from one to 



