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ORPINE FAMILY. 



i. Rhodiola rosea L. Roseroot. 

 Fig 2133. 



Rosewort. 



ola rosea L. Sp. PI. 1035. 1753. 

 , 11 roscum Scop. Fl. Cam. Ed. 2, 326. 1772. 

 n Rhodiola DC. Plantes Gras. pi. 143. 1805. 



rennial, branched at the base, or simple, erect or ascend- 



il glabrous and somewhat glaucous, 4'-i2' high. Leaves 



oval or slightly obovate, acute or obtuse at the apex, 



i\ved or rounded at the base, dentate or entire, 6"-i2" 



;> 2>"-5" wide, the lower ones smaller; cyme terminal, 



, V-2' broad ; flowers dioecious, yellowish-green or 



; ish, 2J"-4" broad; sepals oblong, narrower and shorter 



the petals; staminate flowers with 8 (rarely 10) stamens, 



i .istillate ones with 4 (rarely 5) carpels; follicles purple, 



2" long, only their tips spreading. 



rocky places, Labrador and arctic America to Maine and Ver- 

 ; Chittenango Falls, New York; cliffs on the Delaware River 

 stern Pennsylvania. Northern and alpine Europe and Asia. 

 R rose-scented. Snowdon rose. May-July. 



3. SEDUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 430. 1753. 



leshy mostly glabrous herbs, erect or decumbent, mainly with alternate, often imbricated, 



re or dentate leaves, and perfect flowers in terminal often i-sided cymes. Calyx 4~5-lobed. 



i s 4-5, distinct. Stamens 8-10, perigynous, the alternate ones usually attached to the 



Filaments filiform or subulate. Scales of the receptacle entire or emarginate. Car- 



p( 4-5, distinct, or united at the base, spreading; styles usually short; ovules o. Follicles 



seceded or few-seeded. [Latin, to sit, from the lowly habit of these plants.] 

 About 200 species, .mostly natives of temperate and cold regions of the northern hemisphere, 

 1) iany in the mountains of Mexico and a few in the Andes of South America. Besides the fol- 

 g, about 15 others occur in the western parts of North America. Type species: Sediim 

 hium L. 

 Cye regular, compound, the flowers not secund ; leaves broad, flat. 



'etals purple ; plant somewhat glaucous ; petals twice as long as sepals. 

 'etals pink ; plant very glaucous ; petals 3-4 times as long as the sepals. 

 Fivers secund along the branches of the cyme, 

 'etals yellow. 



Leaves short, thick, ovate, densely imbricated. 

 Leaves linear or terete, scattered on the stems. 

 Annual ; petals little longer than the sepals. 

 Perennial ; petals twice as long as the sepals. 

 Plant 3 '-6' high ; native, western. 

 Plant 8'- 1 2' high ; introduced in a few places, 

 'etals purple or white. 



Leaves terete ; petals purple, pink, or white. 

 Leaves flat, spatulate or obovate ; petals white. 



Lower leaves verticillate in 3's. 8. S. ternatum. 



Leaves all alternate. 9. 6". Nevii. 



S. triphyllum. 

 S. telephioides. 



3. S. acre. 



4. S. Nuttallianum. 



5. S. stenopetalum. 



6. S. reflexum. 



7. S. pulchellum. 



i. Sedum triphyllum (Haw.) S. F. Gray. Orpine. 

 Live-forever. Fig. 2134. 



^Anacampseros triphylla Haw. Syn. PI. Succ. in. 1812. 

 Sedum triphyllum S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PL 2: 510. 1821. 

 Sedum Fabaria Koch, Syn. PI. Germ. 258. 1837. 

 S. purpureum Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. I : 437. 1821. 



Perennial, stems erect, stout, simple, tufted, glabrous and 

 slightly glaucous, i-ii high. Leaves alternate, ovate, 

 broadly oval or obovate, obtuse, i'-2' long, coarsely dentate, 

 the upper sessile and rounded at the base, the lower larger, 

 narrowed at the base or sometimes petioled; cyme dense, 

 regular, compound, 2'-3' broad ; flowers perfect, 2j"-4" broad, 

 5-parted; petals purple, twice as long as the ovate acute 

 sepals; stamens 10; follicles about 2" long, tipped with a 

 short style. 



In fields and along roadsides, Quebec to Ontario, south to Mary- 

 land and Michigan. Naturalized from Europe and native of_ west- 

 ern Asia. Blooms sparingly, but spreads freely by its joints. 

 Garden-orpine. Evergreen. Everlasting. Bog-leaves. Life-of- 

 man. Frog's-mouth or -bladder. Leeks. Frog-plant. Witches'- 

 money-bags. Live-long. Aaron's rod. Midsummer-men. Illus- 

 trated in our first edition as 5". Telephium L. June-Sept. 



