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both in having opposite leaves; from the former also in its flat 

 (not subterete) leaves and yellow (not white) flowers ; from the latter 

 in its smaller, thicker leaves and wide-spreading (not nearly erect) 

 shorter petals. 



Description. — A small, creeping, glabrous, evergreen perennial. Stems 

 slender, prostrate, rooting, with barren and flowering ascending reddish branches ; 

 barren branches many, leafy, 2 to 3 inches, flowering stems 3 to 6 inches, with larger 

 similar leaves. Leaves opposite, smooth, green, often flushed red, J by | inch 

 or a little more, half as thick as broad, very fleshy, sessile, obovate to obovate- 

 spathulate, rounded at apex or with a blunt point on the under side, those of the 

 flowering shoots often alternate. Inflorescence of 2 (sometimes 3) once or twice 

 forked branches, with flowers in the forks, flattish, not very dense, 1-2 inches 

 across, branches ascending in fruit. Buds ovate, bluntly pointed, strongly 

 ribbed. Flowers J inch across, longer than the pedicels. Calyx cup-shaped, 

 lobes triangular, acute, fleshy, pale-green or reddish, separate nearly to the base. 

 Petals bright yellow, patent, oblong-lanceolate, acute, thrice the sepals, keeled on 

 back, deeply grooved on face. Stamens yellow, wide-spreading, equalling the 

 petals. Scales very small, retuse, yellow to orange. Carpels greenish, shorter 

 than the stamens, tapering into the slender styles, at first erect, soon spreading, 

 stellate in fruit. 



Flowers June. 



Habitat. — Western N. America from Oregon to British Columbia, 



I have had in cultivation two wild gatherings sent from British 



Columbia, and also garden plants from about a dozen sources. The 



species appears very constant in its characters. 



102. Sedum Stahlii Solms (fig. 127). 



S. Stahlii Solms, " Samml. Bot. Gart. Strassburg," 1900, 4. " N. 

 Amer. Flora," 22, 66. 



Illustrations. — Bot. Mag., pi. 7908. " Gartenwelt," 8, 6, 1904 (photo). 



Though described less than twenty years ago, this species is 



already very widely spread as a greenhouse plant. It cannot be 



confounded with any other Sedum, its rather large, egg-shaped, downy, 



red-brown opposite leaves being alone sufficient to distinguish it. 



These leaves fall off easily, and young plants arise from them very 



readily. 



Description. — Evergreen perennial, finely downy. Stems many, erect or 

 spreading, slender, woody below. 4 to 8 inches long, seldom branched save at the 

 base, finely hairy above. Leaves opposite, egg-shaped, slightly flattened on face, 

 sessile, very blunt, finely downy, about i by | by J inch. Inflorescence a terminal 

 cyme of 2 to 3 forked branches with flowers in the forks, 2 inches across, leafy, with 

 bracts similar to the stem-leaves but smaller. Buds lanceolate, rather acute, 

 ribbed. Flowers subsessile. J inch across. Calyx bell-shaped, nearly erect, 

 sepals green, fleshy, hairy, lanceolate, free nearly to the base. Petals yellow, 

 twice the sepals, lanceolate, shortly acuminate, wide-spreading in upper part. 

 Stamens yellow, erect, slightly shorter than the petals. Scales small, yellow, 

 spreading, emarginate, as Ijroad as long. Carpels yellow, erect, slender, equalling 

 the stamens, styles short. 



Flowers August-September (cold frame). Hardy at Cork (R. H. 

 Beamish), Warley (Miss Willmott), Waltham Cross (E. A. Bowles), 

 and Rostrevor (Sir John Ross). Nearly hardy at Dublin. 



Habitat. — Puebla, Mexico. 



Named after Professor Ernst Stahl of Jena. 



