CRASSULACE^;. 



575. S. acre Linn. sp. pi 619. E. Bot. t. 839. Woodv. 



t. 231. Eng. Bot. ii. 317. DC. prodr. iii. 4-07 Common on 



walls, dry roofs and old ruins all over Europe. 



Root fibrous, subdivided. Herb smooth, succulent, and tender, 

 grass-green, very hot and pungent to the taste, composing lax, wide- 

 spreading tufts. Stems entangled, branched; the branches leafy, erect, 

 round, 2 or 3 inches high. Leaves imbricated on the barren branches ; 

 scattered on the flowering ones ; obtuse, convex at the back, flattened 

 above, spurred at the base. Flowers of a golden yellow, more or 

 less numerous, in 3-branched leafy, or bracteated, cymes. Capsules 

 membranous. Smith. Petals lanceolate, acuminate. Leaves acrid. 

 Has been recommended in cancerous cases, and also in epilepsy. 



*** The Crassula pinnata Loureiro, with an intensely bitter taste, and 

 used against dropsy, &c., which Dierbach admits into this order, iff 

 evidently, as De Candolle has remarked, not a Crassulaceous plant at 

 all, but belongs to some entirely different natural order. 



