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2. Leaves narrow and thick, barely flattish or terete : low or creeping plants. 



S. acre, MOSSY S., or WALL-PEPPER. Culi. from Eu., for edgings and 

 rock-work, running wild in some places : a moss-like little plant, forming mats 

 on the ground, yciiowish-grecn, with very succulent and thick ovate small and 

 crowded loaves, 'and yellow flowers in summer, their parts in lives. 



S. pulehellum, BEAUTIFUL S. Wild S. W. on rocks ; also cult, in 

 gardens, &c. ; spreading and rooting stems 4' -12' long; leaves crowded, terete, 

 lincar-thread-shaped ; flowers rose-purple, crowded on the upper side of the 4 

 or 5 spreading branches of the cyme, their parts mostly in fours, while those of 

 the central or earliest flower are in fives : in summer. 



S. carneum, variegatum. Cult, of late for borders, &c., of unknown 

 origin ; has creeping stems, and the small leaves mostly opposite, sometimes in 

 threes, linear, flattish, acute, very pale green, and white-edged : flowers not yet 

 seen. 



4. TILL-a3A. (Named for an Italian botanist, TWi.) Fl. all summer. 

 T. simplex, is a minute plant of muddy river-hanks along the coast, 



spreading and rooting, only I'-S 7 high, with linear-oblong opposite leaves, and 

 solitary inconspicuous white flowers sessile in their axils. 



5. CRASSULA. (So named from the incrassated leaves.) House-pl-ants, 

 occasionally cult., from Cape of Good Plope. 2/ 



C. arborescens. Fleshy shrub, with glaucous roundish-obovate leaves 

 (2' long) tapering to a narrow' base, and dotted on the upper face; the flowers 

 rather large and rose-colored. 



C. lactea, has greener and narrowcr-obovate leaves, connate at the base in 

 pairs, and a panicle of smaller white flowers. 



C. falcata, has slightly woody stems, oblong and rather falcate or curved 

 leaves connate at base, 3' -4' long, powdery -gnucous, and a compound cyme of 

 many red sweet-scented flowers, the petals with erect claws partly united be- 

 low, and spreading abruptly above ; so that the plant has been placed under 

 the next genus, and named ROCHEA FALCATA. 



6. ROCHEA. (Named for a Swiss physician, Larochc.) Half-shrubby 

 succulent house-plants of the Cape of Good Hope. 2/ 



R. COCCinea. Stems l-2 high, thickly beset with the oblong-ovato 

 (!' long) leaves up to the terminal and umbel-like sessile cluster of handsome 

 flowers ; tube of the scarlet-red corolla 1' long. 



7. COTYLEDON. (From Greek word for a shallow cup.) House-plants, 

 not common. 2/ 



C. orbiculata. Half-shrubby succulent plant, from Cape of Good Hope, 

 with opposite white-powdery or glaucous wedgc-obovate leaves (2' -4' long), 

 and a cluster of showy red flowers (nearly 1' long) raised on a slender nuked 

 petiole, the cylindraecous tubo of the corolla longer than the recurved lobes. 



C. (or Eclieveria) COCCinea, from Mexico, is shrubbv at base, with 

 the wedgc-obovate acute leaves in rosettes, and alternate and scattered on the 

 flowering stems ; flowers in a leafy spike, the 5-partccl corolla not longer than 

 the spreading calyx, 5-anglcd at base, red outside, yellow within. 



8. BRYOPHYLLUM. (Name of Greek words for sprout or bud and 



leaf.) 11 



B. calycinum. A scarcely shrubby succulent plant, originally from 

 tropical Africa, cult, in houses, &c., with opposite petiolccl leaves, 3 or f> pinnate 

 leaflets, or the upper of single leaflets, and an open panicle of large ana rather 

 handsome hanging green f'owcrs tinged with purple : the calyx is oblong :^d 

 bladdery ; out of it the tubular corolla at length projects, and has \ slightly 

 spreading acute lobes ; the leaflets oval, 2 3 inches long, cr.'nate ; when laid on 

 the soil, or kept in a moist place, they root and bud at the notches and pro- 

 duce little plants. The name refers to the propagation of the plant in this way. 



