ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. I77 



The leaves of the Spanish S. gypsicolum incline to flatness, but its 

 flowers place it close to S. album. 



dasyphyllum Linn. 



hrevifolium DC. 



angUcum Huds. 



album Linn. 



gypsicolum Boiss. and Reut. 



hirsutum AIL 

 Lydium Boiss. 

 gracile C. A. Meyer. 

 Alberii Kegel. 



76. Sedum dasyphyllum Linn. (fig. 97). 



5. dasyphyllum Linn., "Species Plantarum," 431, 1753. Masters in 

 Gard. Chron., 1878, ii. 716. 



Illustrations. — Sowerby, " English Bot.," ed. 3. pi. 530. Reichenbach, 

 " Flor. German.," 23, tab. 56. Curtis, " Flora Londin.," 1, pi. 115. Tenore, 



Fig. 97. — S. dasyphyllum Linn. 



" Flor. Napol.," tab. 229. Jacquin, " Hort. Vindobon.," 2, tab. 153. Cusin 

 and Ansberque, " Herb. Flor. Fran9aise, Crassul.," tab. 23. 



Recognized by its very small size, pinkish-grey colour, pinkish- 

 white flowers, and opposite, egg-shaped, more or less hairy leaves. 

 Even when the barren shoots are nearly without hairs, the inflorescence 

 shows the characteristic pubescence. 



Description. — A small evergreen tufted perennial, 1-2 inches high. Stems 

 wiry, much branched below, with ascending branches, the barren ones short, 

 densely leafy with opposite leaves, the flowering shoots taller, with larger more 

 distant leaves which are opposite or alternate. Leaves ovoid to obovoid, slightly 

 flattened on face, glaucous, more or less glandular-pubescent, \ to ^'o ii^ch long. 

 Buds obovate, very blunt. Inflorescence small, 2-branched, pubescent, of 2-4 

 flowers, pedicels equalling the flowers. Flowers usually 5-, sometimes 6-parted, 

 J inch across. Sepals small, ovate, very fleshy, separate to the base. Petals 

 oblanceolate, apiculate, white on face with a yellowish base, pinkish on back, 

 wide-spreading, thrice the sepals. Stamens slightly shorter than petals, fllaments 

 white, anthers purple. Scales yellow, spathulate. Carpels greenish, erect, 

 equalling the stamens, nearly erect in fruit. 



Flowers June. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Europe (excluding the north), N. Africa. Occurs on 

 old walls in the southern part of the British Isles from Cambridge to 

 Cork, but probably not native. 



It is shy of moisture, but loves an old wall, on which it speedily 

 naturalizes itself and spreads. 



The specific name refers to the very thick leaves. 



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