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Flowers July- August. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Alpine rocks from N. Spain to the Tyrol. The form 

 majus has been sent to me from the Alps by Mr. E. A. Bowles along 

 with the type, and I have seen it in several gardens. 



The name Anacampseros is that of a genus of Portulaceae, and is 

 derived from the Greek anakampto, " to cause return," and eros, " love." 



35. Sedum cyaneum Rudolph (fig. 53). 



S. cyaneum Rudolph in Mem. Acad. Peiersbourg, 4, 341, 1811. Maxi- 

 mowicz in Bulletin Acad. Peiersbourg, 29, 135. 

 Illustration. — Rudolph, loc. cit., t. 2. Regel, " Gartenflora." tab. 972. fig. 2. 



Much the smallest of the Telephium section, but with the character- 

 istic facies of that group, and recognizable by its entire glaucous 



Fig. 53. — 5. cyaneum Rudolph. 



obovate-oblong leaves and heads of rosy purple flowers. Somewhat 

 resembles the var. homophyllum of 5. Ewersii. 



Description. — A small creeping deciduous glaucous perennial 2-3 inches high 

 in flower. Stems slender, prostrate, creeping, branched. Leaves alternate or 

 opposite, flat, fleshy, sessile, entire, blunt, |— | inch long, i-^^inch broad, the lower 

 obovate-oblong, those of the flowering shoots oblong or oblong-linear. Inflorescence 

 a terminal, rather lax corymb. Flowers openly campanulate, rosy lilac. Sepals 

 ovate-oblong, half the petals. Petals \ inch long, ovate. Stamens 10, the 

 epipetaJous ones adnate \ way up, equalling the petals, the others longer. Scales 

 thick, cuneate-linccir. Carpels shortly stalked, lanceolate, with slender styles. 



Habitat. — Siberia, Kamtschatka. 



Very rare in cultivation. Regel [loc. cit.) figured it from living speci- 

 mens, and it was included in Regel and Kesselring's sale list. Plants 

 received from them did not grow. I have seen it in Miss Willmott's 

 garden at Warley, but during several years it has not flowered with 

 her, nor did plants which she kindly gave me produce blossom. The 

 above description is therefore taken mainly from Maximowicz {loc. cit). 



