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This is one of the commonest plants found growing on the Palms at 

 Hyeres. 1 



SEDUM L. STONECROP. 



* Flowering stems usually without sterile shoots ; leaves flat. 

 S. maximum Hoff. A tall robust species 1-2 ft. high. Leaves very 

 large, oval-obtuse, toothed, the lower ones auricled. Petals acute, 3 times length 

 of calyx, flowers pale greenish-yellow, in a corymb with opposite or whorled 

 branches. 



Old walls, rocks, and borders of streams, local. August-September. 



S. Telephium G.G. Orpine, Livelong. Plant robust, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves 

 oblong, coarsely toothed, not auricled. Petals acute, 3 times length of calyx. 

 Flowers numerous, reddish-purple in a loose corymb, with opposite or alternate 

 branches. 



Rocks in the mountain region of Alpes-Marit., scarce. July-August. 



T. Anacampseros L. Plant robust, 6-12 in. high, glaucous. Leaves 

 obovate, very obtuse, entire. Petals obtuse, rather longer than calyx ; flowers 

 rose, in a very dense umbellate corymb. Stems creeping. 



Rocks in the high Maritime Alps, rare. July-August. 



S. stellatum L. Annual, short. Leaves oboval obtuse, flat, toothed, 

 elongated into a petiole. Flowers sessile, star-shaped, pink, in a scorpioid raceme. 

 Capsule obtuse, spreading like a star. Style very short. 



Stony places on the littoral, rather rare. May- June. 



S. Cepaea L. Annual or biennial, finely pubescent, with slender stems. 

 Leaves oblong spathulate, entire, opposite or whorled in fours. Flowers white 

 or pinkish, pedicelled, in little clusters forming a loose panicle. 



Damp rocks and banks, rather rare. July- August. 



S. alsinefolium All. Slender, 2-6 in. high, pubescent or glandular, with i 

 or 2 sterile shoots springing from a rosette of small broadly oval leaves. Stem- 

 leaves few, spreading, oblong-spathulate, small. Flowers white, on long pedicels, 

 in a loose few-flowered panicle. Petals ovate, acuminate. 



Damp rocks in the montane region of les Alpes-Marit., rather rare. July. 



** Leaves subcylindrical, small. Annual. 



S. rubens L. Annual, 2-6 in. high, pubescent glandular, reddish. Leaves 

 cylindric, obtuse, sessile, spreading. Flowers'pinkish-white ; sessile, small, rather 

 unilateral, in a glandular raceme. Sepals 5, oval-triangular. Petals 5, lanceolate, 

 aristate, 3 times length of calyx. 



Fields and dry uncultivated places, uncommon. May-June. 



S. caespitosum DC. Annual, entirely glabrous, reddish, smaller than the 

 last. Leaves oval, obtuse, subcylindric, sessile, imbricate. Flowers pinkish- 

 white, unilateral in few-flowered glabrous cymes. Sepals 4-5, ovate-triangular. 

 Petals 4-5. 



Arid, stony places, rather rare. April- May. 



*** Flowering stems with sterile shoots ; leaves small ; perennial. 



S. album L. White Stonecrop. Plant 3-8 in. high, glabrous, green or often 

 reddish. Leaves cylindric, linear, obtuse. Flowers white, often spotted with 

 red, pedicelled in loose dichotomous corymbs. Rather variable in colour and size, 

 etc. 



Walls, rocks, etc., common. June-August. 



S. dasyphyllum L. Thick-leaved Sedum. Glaucous, 2-6 in. high. 

 Leaves very thick, compressed on inner side, usually opposite, glabrous or 

 glandular. Flowers pinkish-white, on short pedicels, in irregular corymbs. 

 Petals oval, subobtuse. Filaments hairy at the base. 



1 See Thompson, H. S. " Plants Epiphytic upon Palms at Hyeres " in 

 " Journal of Botany," April and December, 1913. 



