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both sides thickly fringed with white hairs ; flowers small, 

 yellow, collected into small terminal corymbs. Peren- 

 nial. 



20. Crassula Punctata ; Dotted Crassula. Leaves oppo- 

 site, ovate, dotted, ciliate, the lower oblong. Stems divided, 

 eight or nine inches long, terminated by clusters of small 

 white flowers, sitting very close to the top : these appear in 

 spring, and again at the end of summer. 



21. Crassula Subulata ; Awl-leaved Crassula. Leaves sub- 

 ulate, columnar, spreading. Stem annual, covered with trun- 

 cate ciliate sheaths of leaves ; spikes headed, terminating, 

 subsessile, with an imbricate involucre. 



22. Crassula Alternifolia; Alternate-leaved Crassula. Leaves 

 serrate-toothed, plane, alternate ; stem very simple ; flowers 

 pendulous, on short peduncles, yellow, solitary ; branches 

 two feet long, lax, purple, hairy. 



23. Crassula Rubens ; Hardy Annual Crassula. Leaves 

 scattered, semicylindric, smooth ; flowers lateral, solitary, 

 subsessile ; branches villose. Stem round, pubescent, decum- 

 bent ; branches ascending, a finger's length ; flowers in the 

 branches among the leaves, scattered, remote, on very short 

 peduncles ; nectaries white, very small. Native of Switzer- 

 land and Italy. 



24. Crassula Verticillaris; Whorl-flowered Crassula. Leaves 

 spreading ; flowers verticilled, awned. Root annual ; stem 

 the length of a finger, much branched, diffuse ; branches 

 opposite ; leaves oblong-egg-shaped, sprinkled with minute 

 pimples ; flowers axillary, sessile, very minute. Native of 

 the south of Europe. 



25. Crassula Nudicaulis ; Naked-stalked Crassula. Leaves 

 subulate, radical ; stem naked. This species never rises with 

 a stalk, but the leaves come out close to the ground, forming 

 a sort of head ; they are succulent, taper, ending in points, 

 and frequently put out roots, out of the centre of which arises 

 the flower-stalk, which is round, and from four inches to a 

 foot in height. The flowers do not open. This species has 

 been long known in the gardens of the curious. It Cowers 

 in May, and sometimes again in the latter part of the sum- 

 mer. Both this and the twenty-sixth species are propagated 

 I >y the heads or offsets, laid to dry three or four days before 

 they are planted, during any of the summer months. 



26. Crassula Orbicularis ; Starry Crassula. Runners pro- 

 liferous, determinately leafy ; leaves very much spreading ; 

 imbricate. This is a very low perennial plant, with open 

 spreading heads, very like those of some sorts of Houseleek, 

 growing on the ends of very slender trailing stalks, produced 

 in plenty on every side of the parent plant, in the same man- 

 ner as the Childing Marigold. Scape four or five inches long, 

 rising from the centre of the tufts of leaves ; flowers small, 

 whitish-red, in several small clusters, disposed in a short 

 branched spike, sweet-scented. 



27. Crassula Pellucida. Stem flaccid, creeping ; leaves 

 opposite. Stems trailing, slender, succulent, of a reddish 

 colour, and putting out roots at the joints. The flowers 

 appear in small clusters at the end of the branches, and are 

 white, with a blush of purple at the brim : they appear at 

 different times in summer, and are often followed by seeds. 



28. Crassula Columnaris. Stem erect ; leaves connate, 

 orbiculate, ciliate, hemispherically imbricate ; flowers termi- 

 nating, very copious, white ; head hemispherical. All the 

 foregoing are natives of the Cape, except the 13th, 23d, and 

 24th species. 



*** Additional Species. 



29. Crassula Barbata ; Beardi'd-li-nri-il r/v/,s.s/<r. Leaves 

 connate, orbiculate, bearded, hemisphericully imbricate ; 

 tern almost naked ; flowers in whorls ; root biennial. 



30. Crassula Argentea ; Silver-leaved Crassula. Leaves 

 connate, ovate, entire, silvery ; stem covered ; corymb super- 

 decompound, Root perennial ; stem shrubby, branched, a 

 foot or more in height ; branches round, smooth ; flowers 

 terminating in an ovate corymb, 



31. Crassula Vestita. Leaves connate, deltoid, obtuse; 

 stem covered ; flowers terminating in a head ; root fusiform, 

 creeping, perennial ; flowers sessiie, yellow. 



32. Crassula Corallina. Leaves connate, deltoid, obtuse ; 

 stem covered ; flowers in an umbel ; root fusiform, peren- 

 nial ; flowers from the ends of the branchlets, very many, 

 terminating, upright, peduncled. This and the foregoing 

 resemble Sea Corallines in the structure of the leaves, but 

 are larger. 



33. Crassula Retroflexa; Orange-flowered Crassula. Leaves 

 connate, oblong, remote ; stem simple ; cyme compound ; f 

 pedicels bent back at an angle. Root annual ; stem filiform, 

 flexuose-erect, a finger's length, smooth, purple; stem-leaves 

 two or four, ovate-lanceolate, blunt, spreading, entire ; flow- 

 ers erect, in a decompound subdichotomous cyme. There 

 are three varieties: 1. with orange-coloured flowers: 2. 

 with middle-sized yellow flowers : 3. with smaller and more 

 tender white flowers. 



34. Crassula Deltoidea ; Deltoid-leaved Crassula. Leaves 

 connate, deltoid ; stem covered ; flowers corymbed. Stem 

 herbaceous, fleshy, round, upright, naked at bottom ; leafy 

 above, branched. 



35. Crassula Cordata. Leaves petioled, cordate ; flowers 

 solitary. Root annual ; stems herbaceous, weak, gradually 

 more slender, leafy at bottom, branched at top, fleshy, round, 

 flesh-coloured, almost upright, a palm in height ; branches 

 opposite, capillary, from spreading upright, smooth ; flowers 

 terminating, on capillary peduncles, appearing from May till 

 August. 



36. Crassula Montana. Leaves connate, ovate, acute, 

 ciliate ; stem almost naked ; flowers headed, aggregate. 

 Root-leaves concave, very frequent, patulous, smooth, green, 

 tinged with purple ; stem-leaves about three pairs, similar, 

 but smaller and remote ; stem filiform, upright, a finger's 

 length, purple. 



37. Crassula Mollis ; Fig-mangold-leaved Crassula. Leaves 

 connate, cylindric-triquetrous, smooth, soft, remote ; stem 

 erect, simple ; corymb trichotomous, superdecompound. 

 Root perennial ; stem frutescent ; leaves acute, smooth on 

 every line, subtomentose, patulous ; flowers in a subfasti- 

 giate corymb. It flowers with us in August, and at the 

 Cape in .January. 



38. Crassula Crenulata ; Notch-leaved Crassvla. Leaves 

 connate, lanceolate, dotted, and crenulate, remote ; corymb 

 decompound. Stem herbaceous, upright, cylindric, leafy, 

 jointed, smooth, green, variegated with white lines, the 

 thickness of a quill, a foot high ; flowers white, in a tri- 

 chotomous fastigiate corymb. 



39. Crassula Alpestris ; Large Mountain Crassula. Leaves 

 connate, ovate, acute, entire, imbricate in four rows ; heads 

 peduncled. Stem round, smooth, upright, branched at bot- 

 tom, before flowering time wholly covered with leaves, a 

 palm high, purple ; flowers in several terminating heads, 

 which are larger than peas ; peduncles purple. 



40. Crassula Pyramidalis. Leaves connate, ovate, obtuse, 

 entire, imbricate in four rows ; heads sessile ; root perennial } 

 flowers at the ends of the branches, in solitary globular heads, 

 larger than a pea. 



41. Crassula Spicata. Leaves connate, linear-subulate; 

 scape almost naked ; flowers in whorls. Root-leaves fastigi- 

 ately opposite, erect, concave above, convex below, smooth, 



