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bles it in the shape of the calyx and the petals, but differs in 

 the leaves, which are of a whitish green, larger and thicker. 

 The whole plant more robust, hairy, and branched from the 

 bottom, grows more in fields and among corn. The flowers 

 larger, opening of an evening, and when first expanded 

 smelling very sweetly. The styles are not so much twisted. 

 O. S. Red German Catchfly or Campion, and Red Alpine Campion. 



STONECROP. SEDUM. 

 COMMON STONECROP or WALL PEPPER. Sedum acre. 



Plate 6, fig. 4. 



The Stonecrop, which every one who has a garden, or even 

 a garden pot knows the name of, and admires for its brilliant 

 yellow flowers, and thick-set, bright green, fleshy leaves, grows 

 abundantly over walls, on cottage roofs, and even at the edge 

 of the most precipitous cliffs and precipices ; in fact such places 

 as these seem its favorite haunts. 



" Where men who've braved the cannon's roar, 



Are pale with speechless dread. 

 The Stonecrop calmly mantles o'er 

 Her rugged bed." 



The heads of flowers are of three branches and leafy, the 

 plant grows under treatment which would kill most others ; 

 the least bit of the stem, when planted, throws out roots and 

 grows, and will even grow a long time after being cut off, so 

 that to dry them for the herbarium, all the species of Stone- 

 crop should be dipped in boiling water for a minute or two 

 before being put in the papers for drying, in order to kill them 

 first. 



O.S. Orpine, or Live-long, a broad-leaved, pink flowered kind ; Thick- 

 leaved Stonecrop, English Stonecrop, White Stonecrop, Hairy Stonecrop, 

 all with white flowers ; Tasteless Yellow Stonecrop, Crooked Yellow 

 Stonecrop, Glaucous Yellow Stonecrop. St. Vincent's Rocks Stonecrop, 

 Welch Rock Stonecrop, all yellow the four last with flowering stalks, 

 six or eight inches high. The name of Stonecrop shows the native habi- 

 tation of all the species, and from this it will be evident that they are all 

 well adapted to ornament rock-work, &c. &c. 



WOOD SORREL. OXALIS. 

 COMMON WOOD SORREL. Oxalis acetocella. 



Plate G,fg. 5. 



This plant is for many reasons interesting. It is a beautiful 

 little plant, that grows along the paths of woods, and hidden 



