ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 137 



at Glasnevin ; the description made from these small plants has been 

 supplemented therefore by notes from the description m North 



Fig. 71.— 5. Cockerellii Britton. 



American Flora." Some further information is contained in Prof. 



CocKERELL's note (/oc. a^.). .,.^^11+^* 



The name is in honour of T. D. A. Cockerell, the first collector of 



the plant. 



52. Sedum Wrightii A. Gray (fig. 72)- 

 S. Wrightii A. Gray, "Plantae Wrightianae," 1, 76, 1852. Rose in 

 "N. Amer. Flora." 22, 72. 

 A pretty Httle Sedum, not closely resembling any other species in 

 cultivation. Partly on account of the way the little, thick obovate 

 leaves readily drop off and root, a close tuft of tmy bnght-green 

 rosettes is formed around the fleshy rootstock, from among which leafy 

 flower-stems rise, often decumbent under their own weight bearing 

 small white, rather bell-shaped, flowers, the lower part of the petals 

 being erect, the upper part spreading, broad, apiculate, hidmg the 

 blunt oblong sepals. The carpels are purple on the inner face. 



and at top of flowenng stem. ^»y''?^*"^"^**^XX oblong-ovate, the corolla 

 l,:oS'iJd?en'iy St^'eStTe^r H„».^"lCst sLu. . inch aco,,. 



