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knows the yellow biting stonecrop, so common on 

 our rockeries and garden walls. This well-known 

 plant has a very scarce first-cousin with thick leaves 

 and pure white flowers, which at the beginning of the 

 last century flourished on the church walls of one par- 

 ticular parish in the Isle of Wight. This church has 

 since been restored, outside as well as inside; but it 

 is satisfactory and interesting to know that Sedum 

 dasyphyllum still maintains a prosperous existence in 

 its old home. 



