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a blunt point, erect, fleshy, reddish-green, persistent in fruit, separate nearly to 

 the base Petals almost erect, nearly i inch long, linear-lanceolate concave, 

 keeled blunt, more than twice the sepals. Stamens shorter than the petals, 

 filameAts pink, anthers orange-red. Scales whitish, wide-spreadmg. as long as 



Fig. 1 10. — S. spurium M. B. 



broad. Carpels erect, pink or white, equalling the stamens j in fruit reddish 

 and nearly erect with spreading beaks. 



Flowers July-August. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Caucasus and Transcaucasia. 



One of the commonest Sedums in cultivation ; and, like most of 

 the species widely spread in gardens, it possesses a multitude of names. 

 A white-flowered form of it was described as a new species— S. opposiii- 

 folium— in 1816 by Sims {BoL Mag., pi. 1807) and the name has per- 

 sisted—though challenged more than once— until Hamet finally 

 disposed of it in 1908 (" Revision des Sedums du Caucase," in Trd. Bot. 

 Sada (Tiflis), 8, part 3). Then it became confused with S. stoloni- 



