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f. aureum Masters, loc. cit. 685. 



Shoots tipped with golden variegation throughout the earher part 

 of the year. A bright Httle plant, often used for edgings and carpet- 

 bedding. Probably of garden origin. 



f. elegans Masters, loc. cit. 



Shoots tipped with silver variegation in the earlier part of the 

 year. Not so showy nor so hardy as the last. 



Observation. — 5. Drucei Graebner, in " Bot. Exch. Club Report " 

 for 1912, 160. This is the common British S. acre L., and I have else- 

 where {Journ. of Bot., 65, 212) recorded the observations according to 

 which I fail to distinguish between it and Continental forms of the 

 same species. 



118. Sedum Stribrnyi Velenovsky (fig. 145). 



S. Stribrnyi Velenovsky in Oesierr. Bot. Zcitschrift, 42, 14, 1892. 

 Halacsy, 'Conspect. Flor. Graecae," 1, 585. 



While resembling a small reflexum in its leafy parts, the inflorescence 

 recalls rather that of acre. Its most distinctive character is the 

 manner in which the flowering stems begin to fork almost from the 

 base and continue dividing to near the top, so that a single stem 

 may bear a dozen ultimate flowering branches. The lax disposition 

 of the flowers on the branches is also characteristic. S. Stribrnyi 

 is a dull little plant until it blooms, when it is showy and effective. 



Description. — An evergreen, glabrous perennial forming a tuft. Stems 

 rooting below, with many ascending branches ; barren shoots much branched, 

 ascending, 2 to 6 inches high, flowering shoots also branched, 3 to 6 inches high. 

 Leaves crowded, of a rather glaucous green, linear, slightly tapering upwards, 

 blunt, sessile, slightly spurred, J inch long, subterete, slightly flattened, chiefly 

 above. Inflorescence compound, each branch of the flower-stem ending in a 

 2- or 3-branched cyme with a flower at the fork ; the cyme-branches straight, 

 almost erect, 1 to 2 inches long. Flowers \ inch across, subsessile. Sepals sUghtly 

 unequal, very fleshy, subterete, green, lanceolate, blunt, resembling the leaves, 

 persistent in fruit. Petals bright yellow, very acute, wide-spreading, lanceolate, 

 strongly keeled, less than twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, slightly shorter 

 than the petals. Scales very small, pale yellow. Carpels spreading, greenish 

 yellow, spreading in fruit, which is rather cup-shaped. 



Flowers July. Hardy. 



Habitat. — Bulgaria, Greece. 



Described comparatively recently from Bulgarian specimens, 

 and since found in Greece. Unknown in cultivation until a few 

 years ago, when Sir Josslyn Gore-Booth, while collecting in Bulgaria, 

 received the plant from Stribrny and brought it home, but in his 

 garden it got labelled 5. Sartorianum. About the same time the 

 late Mr. C. F. Ball, of Glasnevin Garden, brought it back from the 

 same country without a name. 



Named after the Bulgarian botanist Stribrny. 



