ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 289 



Var densirosulatum Praeger mjourn. of BoL, 57, 57> ^919 iH- 170). 



Rosettes dense, twice as broad as long. ^-Zi^^Z^^^^nZl" ^ s)7n,'^mSch 

 by * inch), spathulate. acuminate very glauco^^pped^^^ ^^^^ 



shorter (2 to 3 i^^^^^^^'.^^^^t^i.f ^SfeSrv^holeSflo^^^^^ 



(i inch) . flowers ^^^o-^^ed. on shorte^ ped^els w^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^^^ ^^^ p^,^^, 



about 2 inches long and broad. ^^^J?" ^^ *;°^^''t the cavity in the lower part 

 straighter. less thickened in upper part, so that the <^vity m tu 

 is SI pronounced (fig. 170, a). Scales narrower (fig. 170. b). 



B. Cepaea s.s. 



140. Sedum Cepaea Linn. (fig. 171)- 



S. Cepaea Linn., "Species Plantarum," 431. 1753- Masters in Card. 



Chron. 1878, ii. 750- 

 SYNONVM.-S.ga/.^i^.5Allioni.';FlorPgiem^^^^^ g. 



T^-\ ^S-Sl^t^er^^^i^. ?&?2^.'aist CriLl.." tab. io. 



' A Winter annual, appearing in summer or autumn and flowering 

 earlv the foUowing summer. The tallest of the annual Sedums. 

 ^t^ing sometimes' a foot in height, and the most branched, its 

 Sender pyramidal growth and starlike white flowers separating it 

 from any other cultivated species. Where mtroduced, it often 

 maintains itself by self-sown seedhngs. 



inch long : petiole | inch flat. ^«f ^y Y^J*^^ 'fTgi ^ed with >)dde-spreading. 



the stamens ; sUghtly spreading in fruit. 



Flowers June-July. Hardy. 



HABiTAT.-Central and Southern Europe, on shady rocks. &c. 

 Naturahzed in Buckinghamshire (Sowerby. " Engl. Bot " ed. 3, 4. 63). 



Known in cultivation as early as 1610. but only occasionally 

 found in gardens. I saw it at Leipzig, and with Mr. E A. Bowles at 

 Waltham Cross, and received it from Oxford and Wisley. Of late 

 years S. stoloniferum, a very different plant (see p. 196). has been sold 

 under the name of S. Cepaea by some nurserymen in England. 



Cepaea is a pre-Linnean name for the plant. 



141. Sedum viscosum Praeger (figs. 172, 173). 

 S. viscosum Praeger in Journ. of Bot., 57. 57, 1919. 



A distinct annual Chinese species, remarkable for the coating of 

 glandular hairs tipped with a very viscid secretion which covers every 



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