ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 263 



The Glasnevin plant, from which my description was drawn up, 

 agrees satisfactorily with Hamet's account of the ^^P^f^^„ Jj!f 

 following differences may be noted. The spur is. accordmg to Hamet 

 entire and blunt- while usually so in my plant, it is sometimes 

 slightly or even markedly. 3-lobed; and the flowers m my plant are 

 sessilef not shortly pedicellate. With regard to the former character, 

 it is not constant in several Chinese species; and the presence or 

 absence of pedicels is to some extent dependent on the condit^;;^/>f 

 shade or exposure in which a plant grows ; sessile flowers are often 

 potentially pediceUate. The peculiar form of the placenta m 5. Cehae 

 _a semiorbicular mass placed near the base of the inner face of the 

 carpel instead of a ribbon running the length of the inner face, as 

 LTual in the genus-is found in several other small Asiatic Sedums 

 _S. Przewalskii Maximowicz. S. Fedtschenkot Hamet. and :.. 



Seelemanni Hamet. , . rv,^c+ior, 



Named after Mdlle. AUce Leblanc (by inversion of the Christian 



name) . 



128. Sedum multiceps Coss. and Dur. (fig. 154) • 

 5. multiceps Cosson and Durieu in Bulletin Soc. Bot. France, 9, 171. 

 1862. Masters in Card. Chron. 1878. u. 717. 



Ii.i,usTRATioNS.-Cosson. " lUustt. Flor. Atlant." 2. tab. 131. Gard. Chron.. 

 1876, ii. fig. 45. repeated 1878, u. fig. 120. 



Unmistakable among the linear-leaved hardy Sedums by reason 

 of its shrubby growth. In winter the leaves fade, all except the 

 uppermost, and form a shaggy covering on the stem. Flowers rather 

 sparingly. 



wide-spreading in fruit. 



Flowers July. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Algeria. 



Not infrequent in cultivation, and usually correctly named. 



The name mw/^*ce/>s-many-headed-refers to its branching habit. 



129. Sedum sexangulare Linn. (fig. i55)- 

 S. sexangulare Linn., " Species Plantarum." 432, i753- Masters. Gard. 

 Chron. 1878, ii. 685. 



SYNONVMS.-S. mUc Gilibert. "Flora Lithuan" 5. }^%-^^^fJi^:C' 

 Loisel. in Desv. Journ. Bot. 2. 327. 1809 ; Not.. 17. -S. HtUebranan f en 



