ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 265 



Description.— A small, evergreen, glabrous perennial, forming a fresh green 

 mat Stems creeping, much branched, barren shoots many, ascendmg, i to 2 

 inches long, flowering shoots a little taller. Leaves on barren shoots crowded, 

 linear, blunt, terete, spreading, spurred, J to J inch long usually m 6 spiral rows ; 

 those of flowering shoots similar, less crowded. Inflorescence a flat-topped 

 cyme i to 2 inches across, of 3 branches with a flower in the fork Buds oya.te, 

 acute Flowers | inch across. Sepals green, lanceolate, blunt, lobes longer than the 

 tube persistent in fruit. Petals yellow, linear-lanceolate, acute, wide-spreadmg, 

 twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, spreading, shorter than the petals. Scales 



Fig. 155. — S. sexangulare Linn. 



small, yellow. Carpels yellow, erect, tapering into the styles, equalling the 

 stamens, spreading in fruit. 



Flowers July. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Widespread in Europe. Naturalized in some places in 



England. 



The specific name refers to the arrangement of the leaves m six 



rows. 



130. Sedum rupestre Linn. (figs. 156, 164, a). 



S. rupestre Linn., "Species Plantarum," 431, I753- Baker in Card. 

 Chron. 1877, ii. 307. Masters, ibid., 1878, ii. 658. 



Synosyms.—S. elegans. Lejeune. " Flore de Spa," 1,205 181 r S.pruinaium 

 of many British and Continental authors (not of Brotero, for which see p. 277). 



