ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 277 



had from several English gardens, and Mrs. Henshaw tells me she 

 knows it in the wild state in British Columbia. 



The name stenopetalutn signifies narrow-petalled. 



135. Sedum pruinatum Brotero (figs. 162, 164,/). 



S. pruinatum Brotero, " Flor. Lusit.," 2, 209, 1804. Mariz in Boletim 

 Sociedade Broieriana, 6, 1888, 21. R. P. Murray in Journ. of 

 BoL, 27, 141, 1889. Rouy, " lUustr. Plant. Europ. Ear.," fasc. 10, 

 77. Praeger in Journ. of BoL, 55, 213, I9i7- (Not S. pruinatum 

 of most British and Continental authors, which is S. rupesire L. 

 = elegans Lejeune.) 

 Illustration.— Mariz, loc. cit. tab. i. Rouy, loc. cit. pi. 231. 

 This interesting and distinct plant has long been confused with 

 the well-known S. rupestre L. (=S. elegans Lej.), with which, though 

 belonging to the same group, it has little affinity. In its leaves it 

 comes nearest to S. reflexum, but in growth it is quite different, and 

 its very distinct inflorescence and flowers place it close to S. amplext- 

 caule. While resembling that species, particularly in its few-flowered, 

 two-branched inflorescence and sepals with raised edges and a median 

 depression, it differs widely in its leaves, which have not a broad, 

 clasping base and do not dry up in summer. The very glaucous 

 colour, curious whip-like shoots, rooting only at the tips and dying 

 off behind in autumn, and large straw-coloured flowers distinguish 

 5. pruinatum at a glance when it is growing among its nearest 

 allies. 



Description.— A very glaucous, slender, evergreen perennial, with erect, 

 sparingly leafy, flowering stems about 6 inches high, and very long (6 to 9 \^^^^i 

 slender prostrate barren ones, at first leafy, which perish in autumn save for the 

 verv leafy tip, which roots. Leaves of the different parts similar, alternate very 

 glaucous, linear, acute, to J inch long, subterete, flattish above, rounded below, 

 with a short adpressed whitish spur ; distant, and withering at about flowenng- 

 time save at the tips of the barren shoots, where they are crowded, forming a 

 slender erect, winter bud. Inflorescence lax, 5- to 7-flowered, of two wide-spread- 

 ing branches with a flower in the fork. Buds oblong, lanceolate, acute Flowers 

 * to * inch across, 6- to 7-parted. straw-coloured, on very short pedicels, bepals 

 tapering from a short tube to a rather acute point, glaucous, slightly recurved, 

 edges somewhat raised on the back. Petals twice the sepals wide-spreading, 

 linear acute, strongly keeled on back and channelled on face, | inch long, paler 

 on back. Stamens equalling the petals, pale yellow, anthers oblong, bca^es 

 very small, bright yellow. Carpels nearly white, erect, slightly shorter than 

 the stamens, tapering into the slender styles. 



Flowers July. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Portugal, very rare, chiefly about the Serra de Gerez, 



Rev. R. P. Murray had it in cultivation in England some thirty 

 years ago. By the kindness of Prof. J. A. Henriques of Coimbra, 

 I received a good gathering of the wild plant in 1914, and about the 

 same time Miss Luckham sent to the Royal Horticultural Society 

 for identification a plant collected by her a few years previously. 



Named from the prtiina or " bloom " (literally hoar-frost) which 

 gives the plant its distinctive glaucous colour. 



