ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 283 



reddish, broader than long. Carpels crimson, erect, equalling the stamens 5 



spreading in fruit. 



Flowers June-July. Hardy. ^ a 



HABiTAT.-Asia Minor and Caucasus. Now found in most good 



'''Thrspecific name emphasizes the plant's resemblance to a 

 Sempervivum. 



138. Sedum pilosum M. B. (fig. 166). 

 S pilosum MarschaU von Bieberstein, " Flor. Taurico-Caucas. " 1, 352, 



1808. Boissier. "Flor. Orient.," 2. 786. Hamet m Trd. 



Bot. Sada (Tiflis), 8, pt. iii. 28. 



Card. Chron. 19". i- ^g- ^^- 



A remarkable and showy little biennial plant with ^f^f 

 rose-pink blossoms. The dense, hairy rosettes of the first year s 

 Zfth closely resemble those of a Sempervivum. but m the second 

 Td final year the five-parted flowers with free petals and ten 

 Imen^, though in shape recaUing those of a Crassula. show where 

 its affinities he. 



those of the flowering stems larger J inch lo^ i in«i D ^^s^ 



obovate. Inflorescence a dense, "^"^^h-tof ch«d f^^Jf^^^^^^^ longer than the 

 across, surface convex. Flowers V^^^h long i to | ^^^^^ 3 ,ate 



pedicels Sepals -l-^'^f^^l'^'^^^l^'':^^^ ?blong. Lute. 



;^s^cCurfd! ^^^^T^^th^s!^ oi:roTcruS 

 ^c^./rJ?ect-^r . efuSg v:srn^s; J^ur^u s^^-,^^. 



Flowers May- June. Hardy. 



Habitat.— Asia Minor, Caucasus. 



Though described as long ago as 1808. the plant only recently came 

 into cultivation, and was unknown in our own country untU 1910 when 

 seeds were distributed by Kegel and Kesselring of Petrograd. The 

 specLr is, unfortunately, only biennial, but the seeds germmate 

 freely. A dry niche suits it weU. 



The name pilosum refers to the hairy nature of the plant. 



139. Sedum indicum Hamet (figs. 167, 168). 

 S. indicum v^T. genuinum Hamet in Notes R. Bot. Card. Edinb., 5, 



115. 1912. .. 



SvNONVMS.--C.ass«/a i«d».a Decaisne in Jacquemont^;^^^^^^^^ 



paniculatum Wallich Cat.. No. 7227. 

 Illustration.— J acquemont, loc. cU. 



