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3589. Live-forever. Sedum 

 Telephium. 



a flat-topped, corymbose cyme. Var. hybridum, Hort., 

 is offered in the trade. Var. purpurascens, Hort., is 

 offered in the trade. Var. purpureum, Hort. (not to be 

 confused with S. purpureum, Tausch.), is offered in the 

 trade as a purple-lvd. form; very possibly this is the 

 same as S. maximum var. purpureum. Var. rftbrum, 

 Hort., is offered in the trade. The species and all of its 

 varieties are excellent border 

 and garden plants, also well 

 adapted to the richer parts 

 of the rock-garden. A very 

 variable and confusing 

 species. 



53. Fabaria, Koch (S. 



Telephium subsp. Fabaria, 

 Mast.). Perennial: sts. up- 

 right, 8-16 in. high: Ivs. 

 grass-green, alternate, flat, 

 elongate-lanceolate or lanceo- 

 late, dentate - serrate, base 

 cuneate, lower petioled: fls. 

 lilac - purple, smaller than 

 those of $. Telephium, in a 

 dense, terminal cymose 

 corymb; buds 5-angled; 

 sepals lanceolate; petals lan- 

 ceolate. Cent. Eu. Very 

 close to S. Telephium and 

 botanically speaking probably 

 only a well-marked variant 

 of that species, but horticul- 



turally fairly distinct, as the Ivs. are narrower and the 



fls. smaller. 



54. ternatum, Michx. Fig. 3590. Perennial by root- 

 stocks, glabrous, tufted: barren shoots 6-8 in. long, 

 prostrate and creeping; fl.-sts. erect: lys. J^in. long, in 

 whorls of 3, flat, obovate to suborbicular spatulate, 

 crowded in rosettes at end of the barren shoots; those 

 of the fl.-sts. scattered, oblong, acute: fls. white, Y<$n.. 

 across, 4-merous. in 1-sided, leafy, terminal, 3-5-parted 

 cymes; sepals oblong; petals oblong, acute; anthers red- 

 dish. N. Y. and N. J. to Ga., Ind., Mich., and Term. 

 B.M. 1977. B.R. 142. G.M. 57:840. 



55. primuloides, Franch. Rhizome thick, branched: 

 branches of st. short and fastigiately clustered: Ivs. 

 clustered in a terminal rosette, densely papillose, more 

 or less long-petioled, broad-spatulate, 5-10 lines long 

 including the petiole, entire: peduncles 1-fld., short: 

 sepals narrowly lanceolate; petals white, broadly ovate, 

 about Hin. long. China. G.M. 57:212. Apparently 

 rare in cult. 



56. cyaneum, Rudolph. Perennial, 2^-3 in. high, glau- 

 cous, lilac above: sts. solitary or cespitose: Ivs. oppo- 

 site, few, entire, glabrous; radical oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, somewhat rqsulate; cauline oblong- or oblong- 

 linear: fls. purplish pink, about )^in. across, in a simple 

 or compound corymbose cyme; sepals lanceolate; petals 

 ovate-oblong. Siberia. Gt. 27:972. 



57. Ewersii, Ledeb. (S. azureum, Royle not Desf.). 

 Perennial, glabrous: st. thick, giving off many trailing 

 or ascending shoots, rather woody at 



base, 4-12 in. high: Ivs. opposite, sessile, 

 about J/6-1 in. diam v suborbicular, cor- 

 date, amplexicaul, entire or slightly sinu- 

 ate: fls. numerous, pink or pale violet, in 

 dense globose cymes; sepals linear-lanceo- 

 late; petals oblong-lanceolate; anthers pur- 

 plish. Siberia, N. India, Kashmir, and 

 Thibet. Gt. 9:295. Said to be tender, 

 but well worth pot-culture. Var. turkes- 

 tanicum, Hort., is said to grow 4 in. high 

 and to have deep violet fls. and further- 

 more to be hardy in Mass.; little known 

 to gardeners. 



58. stoloniferum, Gmel. (S. ibericum, Stev. S, 

 spurium, Bieb.). Perennial: barren shoots trailing, 

 glabrous, rooting at the nodes; fl.-sts. ascending, 6 in. 

 high, reddish: Ivs. opposite, %-134 in. long, spatulate 

 or obovate-cuneate, coarsely toothed above, short- 

 petioled: fls. numerous, K-/4in. across, pink or white, 

 in terminal umbellate cymes, 2 in. diam.; sepals linear- 

 oblong; petals lanceolate; anthers reddish, speckled. 

 Asia Minor and Persia, also escaped in N. Maine and 

 Newfoundland. B.M. 2370. Gn. 27, p. 315. R.H. 

 1891, p. 523. S. spurium, Bieb., is maintained as a 

 species by some authorities, but there seem to be no 

 good characters by which to distinguish it. A showy 

 species, common in European gardens and well adapted 

 to rockeries. Var. coccineum, Hort. (S. spurium var. 

 coccineum, Hort.), is offered, in the trade. The fol- 

 lowing trade names also appear: S. spurium var. album, 

 Hort., S. spurium var. roseum, Hort., S. spurium var. 

 rubrum, Hort., and S. spurium var. splendens, Hort. 



59. Nevii, Gray. Perennial, cespitose, tufted, gla- 

 brous: barren shoots prostrate; fl.-sts. erect, 2-5 in. 

 high: Ivs. of barren shoots crowded in terminal rosettes, 

 % x %in., alternate, obovate-spatulate, tapering to a 

 short petiole, auricled at the base, sprinkled with pink 

 dots; those of the fl.-sts. scattered, alternate, similar, 

 but appressed: fls. numerous, white, nearly }/<$&.. across, 

 in forked cymes whose branches are \-\}/2 in. long and 

 recurved; sepals greenish, oblong; petals lanceolate; 

 anthers brownish purple. Mountains of Va. to Ala. and 

 111., but hardy as far north as Mass. B.B. (ed. 2) 2:210. 



60. retusum, Hemsl. Shrubby, glabrous: branches 

 thick and fleshy: Ivs. alternate, small, about J^in. long, 

 oblong-oval or spatulate, sessile, flat, fleshy, usually 

 retuse: fls. white, subsessile, in a few-fld. cyme; sepals 

 linear-oblong; petals oblong, acute, keeled on the 

 back. Mex. 



61. Cepsea, Linn.; also spelled caspium. Annual, 

 10-12 in. high, glabrous: sts. tufted, simple or loosely 

 branched: Ivs. alternate, H-% x M>in., oblong-spatu- 

 la te, narrowed to the petiole; cauline opposite, whorled 

 or scattered, narrower: fls. white, l^-tym. across, in a 

 loose many-fld. paniculate cyme which has purple- 

 spotted, spreading branches; calyx-tube very short, 

 sepals lanceolate; petals lanceolate, with pink mid- 

 nerves and often a few pinkish spots; anthers purplish. 

 W. and S. Eu. Cult, specimens are sometimes said to 

 be pink-fld. 



62. Anacampseros, Linn. (S. rotundifblium, Lam.). 

 Perennial, glaucous, evergreen: branches terete, root- 

 ing at the nodes; fl.-sts. erect, reddish, about 6-8 in. 

 high: Ivs. alternate, orbicular or obovate-obtuse, cor- 

 date, auricled, margins reddish: fls. numerous, pale 



3590. Sedum ternatum. ( X 1 A) 



