CRASSULACEJE. 



575. S. acre Linn. sp. pi. 619. E. Bot. t. 839. Woodv. 

 t. 231. Eng. Bot. ii. 317. DC.prodr. iii. 407. Common on 

 walls, dry roofs and old ruins all over Europe. 



Root fibrous, subdivided. Herb smooth, succulent, and tender, 

 grass-green, very hot and pungent to the taste, composing lax, wide- 

 spreading tufts. Stems entangled, branched; the branches leafy, erect, 

 round, 2 or 3 inches high. Leaves imbricated on the barren branches ; 

 scattered on the flowering ones; obtuse, convex at the back, flattened 

 above, spurred at the base. Flowers of a golden yellow, more or 

 less numerous, in 3-branched leafy, or bracteated, cymes. Capsules 

 membranous. Smith. Petals lanceolate, acuminate. Leaves acrid. 

 Has been recommended in cancerous cases, and also in epilepsy. 



*#* The Crassula pinnata Loureiro, with an intensely bitter taste, and 

 used against dropsy, &c., which Dierbach admits into this order, is 

 evidently, as De Candolle has remarked, not a Crassulaceous plant at 

 all, but belongs to some entirely different natural order. 



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