ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 17I 



erect, equalling the stamens ; in fruit oblong, broadest near the tip, with a short, 

 abrupt beak. 



Flowers May-June, and often again later. 



Warttat— Italy. Greece, Asia Minor. 



A form from the rock garden at Dahlem has very large flowers, 

 I ini across pure white, and leaves mostly opposite ; another from 

 the same source has leaves broader and thicker than usual and | 

 me same buuiL^c rpreived from F. Sundermann, 



inch flowers tmged purple ; a third, received ^^om r 

 of Lindau, has greenish-white flowers of the normal size (i mch) and 



"medX Monte Majella in Central Italy, the original station 

 for the plant. 



72. Sedum monregalense Balbis (fig. 93)- 

 5. monregalense Balbis, " Miscell. Bot.," 23. 1804. Masters in Card. 

 Chron., 1878, u. 716. 

 SVKONVM.-S. ...aai««.Desfontaines ^Ca^-J^-^ag^^S.'efa'' Sis. loc 

 ., 'iTr'^i-^r^'S^S^"^- ..S:rb."FforFran?aise.'' CrLul.. tab. .. 



A slender little plant, distinguished by its small oblanceolate 

 leaves t whorl of four, and lax, hairy, branching inflorescence of 

 white flowers. 



DKSCKiPTioK.-A Slender, weak perenn^l. ^Sierns^^curn^^-t an^^-o^xng 

 below, very erect above, the barren ones ^"J ^^^iV^^ ^^f.^ 4h axillary 

 nearly so; flowering stems 3-5 '^^^'•^^'ZZ t^l Leaves in whorls of 4. 

 ascending branches throughout or towards smoother slightly glandular near 

 crowded, oblanceolate. blunt, fleshy, green si t, distant, the upper 



the tip. i inch long ; those of the flo^«^-f/,^^'"^'^^^ith alternate hairy bracts 

 ones hairy. Inflorescence a ^^f «-P^^^^,\f,/y^^; J^Js | inch across. Sepals 



white. Carpels whitish, erect, nearly erect m fruit. 



Flowers July- August. 



HAB,T«._South-east France Cors.ca,mty^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ 



Rare m cultivation. I have seen it ax ix Nurserv 



Bremen and Edinburgh, and received it ^^^^^^^e M^. ^^^^^'J^ 

 :o. Kildare. in all cases under the name magellense. It succeeds 

 [)est in a damp, shady place. 



73 Sedum moranense H. B. and K. (fig- 94)- 

 moranense Humboldt, Bonpland, -^Kunth ''Nov^Gen.e^^^^^^^ 

 44,1823. Hemsley."Biol.Centr.Amer.,Bot.. 1.397- ^- ^"^ 

 y Flora," 22, 63. 



A distinct little bushy plant typically some 3-4 inches h^h w.th 

 much-branched wiry red stems, bare below, clothed above with sma 



