138 ORPINE FAMILY. 



3. SEDUM. Sepals, narrow petals, and pistils 4or5; the stamen? twice as many, 



the alternate ones commonly adhering to the base of each petal. 



4. TILLjEA. Sepals, petals, stamens, and few-seeded pistils 3 or 4. Very small 



annuals, with axillary flowers. 



6. CRASSULA. Sepals or lobes of the calyx, petals, stamens, and many-seeded 

 pistils 5. Perennial herbs or fleshy-shrubby plants, with flowers in cymes 

 or clusters. 



* * Petals united by their edges below, and bearing the stamens. 

 H- Calyx b-deft or b-parted : pistils 5. 



6. ROCHEA. Corolla salver-form, longer than the calyx. Stamens 5. 



7. COTYLEDON. Corolla urn-shaped, bell-shaped, or cylindrical, sometimes 



5-angled. Stamens 10. 



i- H- Calyx and corolla both 1-lobed at summit : pistils 4. 



8. BRYOPHYLLUM. Calyx inflated ; the lobes of the corolla at length projecting 



and spreading. Stamens 8, projecting. Leaves opposite, petioled, simple or 

 odd-pinnate, crenate. 



1. PENTHORUM, DITCH STONE -CROP. (Name from the Greek, 

 apparently alluding to the parts of the flower being in lives.) 2/ 



P. sedoides. Wet places, especially by roadsides : a homely weed, about 

 1 high, with alternate lanceolate and serrate leaves, and yellowish-green incon- 

 spicuous flowers loosely spiked on one side of the branches of an open cyme, all 

 summer and autumn. 



2. SEMPERVrVTTM, HOUSELEEK. (Latin for Jive-for-ever.) % 



S. tectdrum, COMMOX or ROOF HOUSELEEK, the plant in Europe 

 usually grown upon roofs of houses : propagating abundantly by offsets on 

 short and thick runners ; leaves of the dense clusters oval or obovatc, smooth 

 except the margins, mucronate ; those on the flowering stems scattered, oblong, 

 clammy-pnbescent, as well as the clustered purplish or greenish flowers ; sepals, 

 petals, and pods mostly 12. Cult, in country gardens, and on walls, roofs, &c. : 

 rarely flowering, in summer. 



3. SEDUM, STONE-CROP, ORPINE. (Old name, from sedeo, to sit, 

 i. e. upon rocks, walls, c., upon which these plants often flourish, with little 

 or no soil.) The following are all smooth perennials, and hardy N. except 

 the first species. 



1. Leaves flat and broad, oblong, obovate, or rounded, 

 * The lower ones at least ivhorled in threes. 



S. Sieb61dii, SIEBOLD'S S. Cult, from Japan, mostly in pots ; with, 

 slender and weak or spreading stems, glaucous and mostly reddish-tinged round 

 and often concave leaves (!' or less long), with a wedge-shaped base and wavy- 

 toothed margin, all in whorls up to the cyme of rosy-purple flowers, which all 

 have their parts in fives. 



S. tern&tum, THREE-LEAVED S. Wild in rocky woods from Penn. S. 

 & W., and common in gardens ; with spreading stems creeping at base and 

 rising 3' - 6' Avhen they blossom ; the lower leaves wedge-obovatc and whorled ; 

 the upper oblong and mostly scattered, about ' long ; flowers white, the first 

 or central one with parts generally in fives, the others sessile along the upper 

 side of the usually 3 spreading branches and mostly with their parts in fours ; 

 in late spring. 



* * All or most of the leaves alternate : flowers in a corymb-like terminal cyme, 

 purple or purplish, in summer, all with their parts inflves. 



S. Telephium, GARDEN ORPINE or LIVE-FOR-EVER. Cult, from Eu. 

 in old country gardens : erect, about 2 high, with oval and mostly wavy- 

 toothed pale and thick leaves, small and dull-colored flowers in a compound 



cyme, and short-pointed pods. 



S. telephioides, WILD O. 

 the Alleghanies ; 6' - 12' high, v< 



or L. Dry rocks on mountains, chiefly along 

 very like the last, but with fewer flowers, and 

 pods tapering into a slender style. 



