134 WILD FLOWERS OP SUMMER. 



yellow cymes, and the leaf-stem is covered with thick 

 recurved leaves. Two other yellow stonecrops are fre- 

 quent in "Wales and on the Cheddar rocks. The "White 

 Stonecrop or Orphine (Sedum album") is sometimes 

 pickled as samphire. The English Stonecrop (Seditm 

 Anylicwii), common in "Wales, and on the sea-shore, is 

 very lovely. The flowers are but few, but they shine 

 like stars. In the centre their purple anthers are 

 conspicuous. The foliage is tinged with purple. It 

 flowers early, and its branched stems are seldom more 

 than three or four inches high. One species of Stone- 

 crop (Sedum telepldum) is often found on field borders 

 and amongst bushes. Its stem is spotted, the leaves 

 broad and oval-shaped, and its clustered flowers are 

 purple. Its common name is orphine or livelong. 



The interesting House Leek (Sempervirum tectorum) 

 is well known from its rosette-like foliage and pinkish 

 flowers, which shed their alleged protecting influence 

 from lightning and calamity over many a cottage 

 roof. The flowers are very interesting to botanic 

 students, and the leaves are used by the villager as a 

 cosmetic, and as a dressing to burns and scalds. 



The "Wall Germander (Teucriwn ckamcedrys) is 

 sometimes found in the early summer on old castle 



