172 CRASSULACE.?::. (OUri.VK FAMILY.) 



3. SEDUM, Touin. SxoNK-cRor. Orpine. 



Sepals and petals 4 or 5. Stamens 8 or 10. Pods many-seeded ; alrttlcscale 

 Kt tiie base of eaeh. — Chiefly perennial, smooth, and thick-leaved herbs, with 

 the lk)\vers eymose or one-sided. Petals alnio.-st always narrow and acute or 

 pointed. (Name from sideo, to sit, alluding to the manner in which these plants 

 tix themselves upon rocks and walls.) 



« Flowers perfect and sessile, as it were spiked along one side of spreading flowering 

 branches or of the divisions of a scorpioid cyme, the first ur central flower mostly 

 5-iiierous and lO-androus, the otiiers oflen <^-mtrous and 8-aiidrous. 



1. S. XcRE, L. (Mossy Stoxe-crop.) Spreading on the ground, moss- 

 like; leaves very small, alternate, almost imbricated on the branches, ovate, 

 vcrv thick ; jjctals yellow. — Escaped i'rom cultivation to rocky roadsides, &c. 

 July. (Adv. from Ku.) 



2. S. pulchellum, jNIichx. Stems ascending or trailing (4'- 12' high) ; 

 leaces terete, linear fli ifonn, much cro\vded ; spikes of the cyme several, densely 

 flowered ; petals rose-purple. — Virginia to S. Illinois, Kentucky, and southward ; 

 also cultivated in gardens. July. 



3. S. N6vii, Gray. Stems spreading, simple (3' -5' high) ; leaves all alter- 

 nate, those of the sterile shoots wedfje-ohorate or spatidate, on flowering stems lin- 

 ear-sputulate and flattish ; cyme about 3-spikcd, densely flowered ; petals white, 

 more pointed than in the next ; the flowering 3 or 4 weeks later ; leaves and 

 blossoms smaller. — Mountains of Virginia (Salt Pond ^luuutain, ir. M. Can- 

 by) to Alabama (R. D. JVevius). 



4. S. ternktum, Michx. Stems spreading (3' -6' high); /eat-e,s/fj<; the 

 lower ivhorlcd in threes, icedge-obovate, the upper scattered, ohlowj ; cyme 3-spiked, 

 leafy; petals white. — Rocky woods, Penn. to Illinois and southward: common 

 in gardens. May, June. 



* * FloiLvrs in a terminal naked and regular cyme or cluster, more or less ped uncled: 



haves flat, ohovate or oblong, mostly alternate. 



•f- Flowers perfect, ri-merous, \0-androii^. 



5. S. telephioides, Michx. Stems ascending (6' -12' high), stout, leafy 

 to the top; leaves oblong or oval, entire or sparingly toothed; cyme small; 

 petals fltsh-cotor, ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed ; jmds tapering into a slender style. 

 — Dry rocks, Alleghany Mountains, from Maryland southward, and sparingly 

 in New Jersey? W. New York ? and Indiana. June. — Too ne:ir the next. 



6. S. TEL]i;pniuM, L. (Gardkn Orpine or Live-for-ever ) Stems 

 erect (2° high), stout; leaves oval, obtuse, toothed; cymes compound; /letals 

 jntrplc, oblong-lanceolate ; jiols abru/illi/ poiiit(d with a short style. — Rocks and 

 banks, escaped from cultivation in some ])laces. July. (Adv. from Eu.) 



•<- -t- Flowers ditrrlous, mostly 4-ni'rous and S-androus. 



7. S. Rhodiola, Dr. (Roseroot.) Stems erect (.'5'- 10' high) ; leaves 

 oblong or ovmI, smaller than in the preceding ; flowers in a close cyme, greenish- 

 yellow, or the fertile turning purplish. — Pennsylvania, on cliffs of Delaware 

 River, below Easton ! {Pnfe.sxo'S Porter if Green) ; Quoddy Head, Maine {Prof 

 Verrill), and nortiiward. May, June. (Eu.) 



