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out in the garden it should have poor, 

 dryish, firm, sandy soil. Division. 



Sedum Ewersii (Ewers' s Stonecrop). 

 Somewhat like S. Sieboldi, but smaller 

 and more compact in habit ; 2 or 3 in. 

 high. Mowers, in summer ; purplish, 

 in terminal corymbs; petals lance- 

 shaped, acute, a little longer than the 

 stamens. Leaves, glaucous, smooth, 

 opposite, irregularly toothed; lower 

 ones broadly elliptic, upper ones heart- 

 shaped ; stem rooting at the base. 



Altai Mountains. The rock-garden, 



and margins of the mixed border, in 

 open soil. Division. 



Sedum glaucum (Glaucous Stonecrop). 

 A minute species of a greyish hue, 

 forming dense tufts of short stems, 

 2 or 3 in. high, densely clothed with 

 fat leaves, flowers, in early summer ; 

 white, inconspicuous ; petals, 6, mucro- 

 nate, 1 -nerved. Leaves, short, thick, 

 and fleshy, alternate, glaucous ; stems 

 covered with spreading down. There 

 are various other Sedums allied to this, 

 and probably all are forms of one kind. 

 Native of Hungary. The rock- 

 garden, sometimes in spreading masses 

 as a glaucous " carpet plant," borders, 

 edgings, lines, masses, etc., in the 

 flower-garden, associated with other 

 dwarf plants, in light soil. Division. 



Sedum kamtschaticum (Orange Stone- 

 crop). A showy kind, somewhat re- 

 sembling S. spurium in habit ; 3 to 5 in. 

 high. Flowers, in summer ; dark orange- 

 yell ow, in terminal cymes; bracts 

 much longer than the cymes. Leaves, 

 oboval-lance-shaped, bluntly toothed, 

 alternate or opposite. Eastern Siberia. 

 Borders, edgings, and the rock- 

 garden, in ordinary soil. Division. 



Sedum Nevii (Nevius's Sedum). A 



rather showy kind, with spreading 

 simple stems, 3 to 5 in. high. Flowers, 

 late in summer ; white, with pointed 

 petals and purplish anthers, in dense 

 branching cymes. Leaves, all alter- 

 nate ; those of the sterile shoots wedge- 



shaped-obovate or spathulate : those 

 of the flowering stems linear, spathu- 

 late and flattish. North America. 



Rockwork, in gravelly or sandy 



loam. Division. 



Sedum populifolium (Shrubby Stone- 

 crop). More curious than beautiful, 

 forming a small, much -branched 

 plant, 6 to 10 in. high. Flowers, late 

 in summer; white, in terminal co- 

 rymbs. Leaves, scattered, smooth, 

 stalked, flat, coarsely toothed ; lower 

 ones heart-shaped ; upper ones ovate ; 

 stems erect, much branched, shrubby. 



Native of Siberia. Borders, or the 



rougher parts of the rock-garden; 

 chiefly suited for botanical and curious 

 collections. Division. 



Sedum pulchellum (Bird's-foot Stone- 

 crop). A handsome and distinct kind, 

 4 to 10 in. high. Flowers, in summer ; 

 purplish-rose, crowded in umbellate 

 spikes, spreading or recurved when in 

 flower, but straight and somewhat 

 erect when in fruit. Leaves, very 

 numerous, linear, obtuse, flattish, 

 closely sessile, more or less jointed at 

 the base ; stems rising, often branched 



from the base. North America. 



Borders, the rock-garden, and as an 

 edging plant, in ordinary sandy soil. 

 Division. 



Sedum purpurascens (Purple Stone- 

 crop). Considered by some to be a 

 variety of S. maximum, which it very 

 much resmbles ; 10 to 18 in. high. 

 Flowers, late in summer and in au- 

 tumn ; purplish, arranged in an elon- 

 gated and irregular corymb. Leaves, 

 flat, fleshy, lengthened-oblong, toothed, 

 rounded at the base, opposite or 

 whorled, the upper ones almost clasp- 

 ing the stem, and of a dark purplish 



colour. France. Borders, or natu 



ralization, in ordinary soil. Division. 



Sedum rupestre (Rock Stonecrop). 

 A greyish densely-tufted species, with, 

 numerous spreading shoots, usually- 

 rooting at the base and erect at th~ 



