ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 27I 



which are erect (not drooping) in bud, and by its whitish (not bright 

 yellow) flowers. The leaves are more conspicuously acute than in 

 any other species of the section, and end in a Httle, thorn-like point. 

 In the peculiar greenish-white tint of the flowers it matches S. ano- 

 pelalum, as also in its acute leaves and inflorescence erect in bud ; but 

 the latter has leaves and flower stems of only half the length, the 

 leaves are linear and terete, and the inflorescence flat, not sub- 

 globular, in bud. 



The plant varies much in size and colour, from robust forms with 

 flower stems two feet high bearing leaves up to i| inch long, to 



Fig. 158. — Sedum reflexum var. cristatum. 



quite dwarf forms rising only to 6 inches ; and as regards colour from 

 pale green or dark green to fine purple-glaucous. The large forms 

 include var. laUfolium of Rouy and Camus, " Flore de France," 

 7, 108, which is also the S. nicaeense of Allioni, " Flor. Pedemont." 

 ii. 122, iii. tab. 90, fig. i ; S. coerulescens Haworth in Phil. Mag., 66, 

 172, 1825, is a small purple-glaucous form. 



Description. — Evergreen perennial, glabrous, usually glaucous. Roots 

 fibrous. Stems decumbent, woody and rooting below, with ascending branches. 

 Barren shoots many, very leafy, 3-6 inches high. Flowering stems i to 2 feet 

 high, unbranched, very erect. Leaves of the barren stems alternate, i to J inch 

 long by YV°to t^ inch wide, flattened, especially on face, linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 spine-pointed, sessile, slightly spurred : those of the flower-stems similar but 

 larger, up to i J by J inch, more distant, smaller upward. Inflorescence a com- 

 pact, leafless, subglobose cyme of several forked branches with a flower in the 

 forks, erect and globose in bud, very hollow and obconical in fruit. Buds oblong, 

 very blunt, strongly ribbed, ribs greenish. Flowers J inch across, sessile or nearly 

 80, mostly 5-merous. Sepals green, fleshy, ovate, acute, tube short. Petals 

 2^ times the sepals, boat-shaped, keeled, oblong-lanceolate, broadest near the 



