ORPINE FAMILY. Crassulacess. 



There are many in the cluster. 8-18 inches high. In 

 wet sand near the seacoast, from Mass., south. Found 

 in the pine barrens of New Jersey. Nothing is more 

 dainty and beautiful under the magnify ing-glass than 

 the spun-glasslike, glandular, ruby hairs of the Droseras. 



ORPINE FAMILY. Crassulacece. 



Rather fleshy or succulent herbs, with absolutely sym- 

 metrical small flowers ; the petals, sepals, pistils, and 

 stamens equal in number, or the last double in number, 

 differing only in this respect from Saxifragacece. 



A familiar weed of ditches and swamps 

 Stonecrop with insignificant greenish yellow, or yel- 

 Penthorum low-green flowers, in slender bending 

 sedoides clusters of 2-3 branches, at the top of the 



Yellow=green erect stenij Tne latter is smooth, usually 



September branched, and bears lance-shaped, or ellip- 

 tical, pointed, light green leaves, finely 

 toothed. The flower has five sepals, but rarely any pet- 

 als, ten stamens, and five pistils united below, finally 

 forming a five-angled seed-vessel. Not fleshy-leaved. 

 8-20 inches high. Me., west to S. Dak. and Neb. 



A small species at home on rocky ledges 

 Stonecrop and ^ n s *ony woodlands. It has little five- 



Sedum petaled white flowers growing on horizon- 



ternatum tally spreading branches. The leaves are 



small, toothless, fleshy, and rather wedsre- 

 April-June e . 



shaped ; the lower ones are generally in 



groups of three. The flower-cluster is three-spiked and 

 leafy. 3-8 inches high. The name is from sedeo, to sit. 

 Live=forever ^ common perennial, with a stout light 

 or Garden green stem and very smooth, fleshy, dull- 



Orpine t toothed leaves, which children are fond of 



splitting by lateral pressure with the fin- 



purpureum 



Dull garnet & ers ' and forming mto green "purses." 

 red It is adventive from Europe, and is gener- 



June- ally an escape from gardens, establishing 



September j tself in elds and on roa dsides. The light 

 green leaves, particularly when young, are covered with 

 a whitish bloom. The small flowers in thick clusters are 

 opaque crimson. 10-18 inches high. Common. 

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