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of North American yellow-flowered spathulate-leaved Sedums it 

 may be distinguished by its remarkably long, acute, sub-erect petals 

 (resembling in shape and position those of the common 5. spurium), 

 and tapering buds no less than f inch long. 



Description.— A small, creeping, glabrous evergreen perennial, forming a 

 ereen mat tSged red. Stems many? creeping, bare below, round, smooth, with 

 Sanv ascending branches; barren shoots i to 3 inches high, leafy flowenng 

 Soots about 6 inches, unbranched, leaves more distant. Leaves alternate or 

 ooooTite shining green, often suffused with red, flat, very fl^hy. spathulate. 

 Se v'e^ blunt?t apex, tapered below, about f by | inch ; those of flowenng 

 sSms sinmar. Inflorescence flat, i\ inch across, of 2 or 3 sin^Pl«'/°^^«^' °/ 

 twi^e-forTed branches with flowers in the forks, bracts simdar to the leaves 

 S^ uppennost ones very small. Buds ovate-elongate, f mch ong, tapered to a 

 long s?eiXr point. Flowers sessile or lower ones shortly stalked, not opemng 

 SysSfl^/? ovate-lanceolate, acute, green, only slightly fleshy, tube short. 

 SSJianc^late-attenuate. erect or slightly spreading, tapenng to a long pomt. 

 united in their lowest \, nearly thrice the sepals, yellow. Stamens yellow, erect. 

 I the petals. 5caf.s small, yellow. Carpels green, erect, equallmg the stamens, 

 nearly erect in fruit. 



Flowers July-August. 



Habitat.— Western North America from Alaska to Northern 

 California. Named after the locaUty in which it was first discovered 

 —the mouth of the Oregon River. 



(ii.) Leaves not broadest above {ovate to linear). 



No fewer than twenty-two of the cultivated Sedums fall under 

 this definition, natives of various parts of Europe. Asia, and America. 

 The best-marked group among these is that formed by the last seven 

 species, formed of six European and one (5. stenopetalum) N. American 

 plant, and well illustrated by the British 5. rupesire and S. reflexum. 

 Resembhng these in their linear leaf-form, but differing by their 

 stellate fruit and smaller size, come three Himalayan or Chinese 

 plants— S. multicaule, irullipetalum, Celiac, belonging to the group 

 Japonica. S. nudum and lancerottense are closely alHed tender species 

 with egg-shaped leaves, from the Atlantic islands. The remainder 

 are a rather miscellaneous assortment. 



humifusum Rose. irullipetalum H. f. & T. 



cupressoides Hemsley. Celiae Hamet. 



acre Linn. muUiceps Coss. & Dur. 



Stribrnyi Velen. sexangulare Linn. 



oaxacanum Rose. rupesire Linn. 



nudum Alton. reflexum Linn. 

 lancerottense R. P. Murray. altissimum Poiret. 



japonicum Siebold. anopeialum DC. 



alpesire Villar. stenopetalum Pursh. 



Douglasii Hooker. pruinatum Brotero. 



multicaule Wall. amplexicaule DC. 



