ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 23I 

 Description —Bright-green, glabrous, evergreen perennial. Roots fibrous 



Fig. 133. — S. mexicanum Britton. 



yellow, anthers reddish. Scales minute, 

 spreading, yellow, equalling the stamens, 



cuneate, yellow. Carpels slightly 

 Not hardy at 



Flowers April (gentle heat) ; June (cold frame). 

 Dublin ; nearly so at Rostrevor. 



Habitat. — Near Mexico City. 



Though only described in 1899 from specimens raised in America 

 from seeds collected near Mexico City, there is evidence of its culti- 

 vation in England at an earlier date. It is clearly the plant (of which 

 Maximowicz remarks " mihi ignotum"), described by Masters in 

 1878 as 5. sarmentosum Bunge (a Chinese species), under which name 



