ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 169 

 only the flowering ones perish out year by year, exactly as in Saxifraga 



Cotyledon." 



Named after its first collector, L. Chanet. 



70. Sedum alsinefolium AUioni (fig. 92). 



S. alsinefolium AUioni, " Flor. Pedemont.,"2, 119, tab. 22, fig. 2, 1785. 

 Masters in Card. Chron., 1878, ii. 750. 

 iLLUSTRATioNS.-AUioni, loc. cit. (poor). Cesati, " Stirpes Ital." fasc. 2 (good). 



An extremely distinct species, which one would not suspect of 

 being a Sedum when out of flower, the small, tufted hairy rosettes 

 suggesting rather a Saxifrage. Hairy throughout, even to the back 

 of the petals, which are of unusual breadth. It is not to be mistaken 

 for any other species, its leaves, inflorescence, and flowers being all 

 very distinct (see fig. 92). 



Description -A small tufted perennial, dark green, shining, l^^iry stic^^ 

 Ba^r^H:riort, forming close%at^h -ett^ - -^^ SIL^TS 

 shoots 4-6 inches high slender and ^^-^^^ .^^ J,„f 'f!?'"nVlong ; the petiole 



Lve. of the flowering shoo^laxser ^-^^^.1^:^^^' :^^Lr fZers 



rS Ca^ds green, erect, equalling the stamens, styles divergent. 



Flowers June-July. _ ^.u^^^^^ 



Rare in cultivation. I have seen it at Glasnevm (whither the late 

 C F Ball brought it from the Alps), Kew, and Edinburgh; M. 

 COEREVON sent it to Wisley, and Masters enters it in 1878 ^^^^if 

 him in the living state, presumably in a S'^'^den Rare m the wUd 

 state being coniined to Piedmont, the Alpes Mantimes and Liguna. 

 In m'y garden I found protection from slugs was desirable 



The name comes from the likeness of its leaves to those of an 



Alsine. 



71. Sedum magellense Tenore (fig. 91. lower part). 



S. magellense Tenore, Flor. Napoliiana. 1, xxvi. i8ii-i5- 



SVNONVM.-S. olympicum Boissier. "Dmgnos^ Plant. Nov '' ?«- J^f'.? J^^^J^; 

 Illustrations.— Tenore, loc. at tab i39. f^S); l^auim. 



; fig. c. Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 16. tab. 9-10. 1866. 



i A very distinct little plant, known at once by j^s raceme^ 

 inflorescence, which is 1-2 inches long and ^^^V ^^^.^^'^^ ^J"^^^^ 

 broad, and its bright green, flat, obovate leaves i inch ong on the 

 barren shoots. The oblong carpels, too, are very ^^^'^^^J"^;^ 

 is some variation as regards the flowers, which are ^^ "^^^ P"^^ 

 white, or have a greenish or purplish tinge, and are larger m some 

 forms than in others. 



