172 ORPINE FAMILY. 



S. telephioides, Michx. Wim) O. or T.. Dry rocks on mountains, 

 chiotly aloiiji tho AUciilianies ; U'-12' high, very like the last but with 

 fewer Hovvers, and pods tapering into a slender style. 



§ 2. Leaves narrow and thick, hare.ly flattish or terete; low or creeping 



plants. 



S. acre, Mossy S., or Wall Peppek. Cult, from Eu., for edgings and 

 rock work, running wild in .some places; a nioss-like little plant, forming 

 mats on the ground, yellowish-green, with very succulent and thick, 

 ovate, small, and crowded leaves, and yellow flowers in summer, their 

 parts in lives. 



S. pulch^Uum, Michx. Beautiful S. Wild S. W. on rocks; also 

 cult, in gardens ; spreading and' rooting stems, 4'-12' long ; leaves 

 crowded, terete, linear-thread-shaped; flowers rose-purple, crowded on 

 the upper side of the 4 or 5 spreading branches of the cyme, their parts 

 mostly in fours, while those of the central or earliest flower are in fives ; 

 in summer. 



S. sarmentdsum, Bunge. (Known in gardens as S. cArneum, var. 

 VARiEGATUM.) Cult. in bordcrs, and for carpet bedding ; has creeping pink 

 stems, and the small leaves mostly opposite, sometimes in threes, linear, 

 flattish, acute, very pale green, and white-edged ; flowers yellow. China. 



4. CRASSULA. (So named from the incrassated or thick leaves.) 

 House-plants, occasionally cult., from Cape of Good Hope. ^ 



C. arborescens, Willd. Fleshy shrub, with glaucous roundish-obovate 

 leaves (2' long) tapering to a narrow base, and dotted on the upper face ; 

 the flowers rather large and rose-colored. 



C. Idctea, Soland. Has greener and narrower-obovate leaves, connate 

 at the base in pairs, and a panicle of smaller white flowers. 



C. fa/cdta, Wendl. Has slightly woody stems, oblong and rather 

 falcate or curved leaves connate at base, o'-4' long, powdery-glaucous, 

 and a compound cyme of many red sweet-scented flowers, the petals with 

 erect claws partly "united below, and spreading abruptly above. 



5. ROCHE A. (Named for a Swiss physician, Laroche.) Half -shrubby 



succulent house-plants of the Cape of Good Hope. "21 



R. coccinea, DC. Stems l°-20 high, thickly heset with the oblong- 

 ovate (1' long) leaves up to the terminal and umbel-like, sessile cluster of 

 handsome flowers ; tube of the scarlet-red corolla, 1' long. 



6. COTYLEDON. (From Greek word for a shallow cup.) Hou.se- 

 plants, not common. 2Z Many species are cult. 



C. orb icu lata, Linn. Half-shrubby, succulent plant, from Cape of 

 Good Hope, with opposite white-powdery or glaucous wedge-obovate 

 leaves (2'-4' long), and a cluster of showy red flowers (nearly 1' long) 

 raised on a slender naked petiole, the cylindraceous tube of the corolla 

 longer than the recurved lobes. 



C. (or Echeveria) coccinea, Cav. From Mex. ; is shrubby at base, with 

 the wedge-obovate, acute leaves in rosettes, and alternate and scattered 

 on the flowering stems ; flowers in a leafy spike, the 5-parted corolla not 

 longer than the spreading calyx, 5-angled at base, red outside, yellow within. 



7. BRYOPHYLLUM. (Name of Greek words for sprout or bud and 



leaf.) 11 



B. calyclnum. r^alisb. A scarcely shrubby, succulent plant, probably 

 from Mex., cult, in houses; with ojiposite petioled leaves, '.i or 5 pinnate 



