ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 85 



upper ones rounded below), shortly and indistinctly stalked (instead of sessile) : 

 ovaries not furrowed on back. 



Flowers August-September. Hardy. 

 Habitat.— Britain to Central Europe. 



men characteristic, S. purpureum and S. F^^^'^\^'\^lfl 

 distkieuished. but there are many plants which one hesitates to refer 

 fo oTforr^ or to tHe other-whether this is due to crossmg or not 

 cannot offer an opinion. The " wild " British Pl-ts which I have 

 grown have all been Fabaria. but I do not attempt to go into the 

 queltln of the distribution in the British Isles of the two forms 

 The confusion which seems fated to hang over the Sedums is here 

 especially marked, as, for instance, when one receives from one of the 

 aSesTof'^English fielk botanists roots of the Japanese S. alboroseun.. 

 as a native Telephium form from woods m Sussex I 



As iTL case of its near ally S. maximum, a large number of 

 varieties of 5. Telephium have been described, particularly by French 

 botanists, andagoodaccountof these will befoundmRouy and Camus, 

 ~ d; France." vol. vU. For reasons stated in the Introduction to 

 the present paper (p. 15) and under S. maximum on p. 81, no attempt 

 s made here to enTer into a discussion of these. The reader seeking 

 nfrmation regarding them should consult Boreau, Mono^aph 

 de quelques Sedum," Mem. Soc. Acad, d' Angers, vol xx^ 1866 Masters 

 tLdXkron., 1878, ii. ; Rouy and Camus, "Flore de F-nce, v^^^^^^ 

 IQOI ; and the beautiful coloured plates m Jordan and Fourreau 

 '''ico^es ad Floram Europae," vol. i. 1866-8. It may be said hat 

 they belong ahnost altogether to S. purpureum no to S.Fab^^a^^ 

 Among the garden forms variation is very noticeable m the height 

 arcolour of stem ; in the arrangement, size, shape, dentition, and 

 colour of leaves ; and in the size, shape, and colour of mflorescence 

 and flower. S. Telephium seems to vary much more m directions 

 other than towards maximum, than S. maximum does, except towards 

 Telephium. Nevertheless, the presence of many intermediates is 

 discouraging in the search for satisfactory varieties. In the case 

 of Telephium, confusion is very probably produced m gardens by the 

 natural crossing of varieties, as the species tends to produce itself 

 from seed more freely than the majority of Sedums. 



Var. Border! Rouy and Camus. 

 Of the forms of S. Telephium found in gardens which I have 

 succeeded in identifying with described varieties, the one which appears 

 most satisfactory, as maintaining a distinct and uniform facies is 

 S. purpureum var. y Borderi Rouy and Camus, Flore de France 

 7 low (Anacampseros Borderi Jordan and Fourreau ;'Brev. Plant. 

 Nov./' Uc. i. 30. and " Icones Plant. Eur ." t. 96). which has leaves 

 deeplv and irregularly toothed and distinctly stalked (fig. 38, «)• Ihis 

 was received from several garden sources, mostly named var. 

 carpaticum (S. carpaticum Reuss). which is somewhat similar. 



