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than broad, half-inferior, the sepals blunt, short, 

 erect. The ovary is broad, rounded below. The 

 anthers are long, heart-shaped, with an open 

 notch. The capsule has spreading- beaks. The 

 plant is 1-4 in. high, flowering in May and June, 

 and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Saxifraga grcenlandica, L. The stems of this 

 species are viscid, close, forming a thick cushion. 

 The leaves are persistent, deep green. The flowers 

 are white. The anther-stalks turn purple. The 

 plant is a herbaceous perennial, flowering in the 

 summer. 



Saxifraga sternbergii, Willd. (= 5. hibernica, 

 Hard.). The habitat of this species is mountains. 

 The habit is the rosette habit. The plant is robust. 

 The stems are hairy. The barren shoots are long. 

 The leaves are hairy with 3-5 blunt lobes. The 

 sepals are oblong, ovate, blunt. The plant is 

 2-8 in. high. 



Saxifraga rosacea, Mcench ( = 5. decipiens, Ehrh. ). 

 The habitat of this plant is mountains. The 

 plant has the cushion habit. The leaves are closely 

 tufted. The barren shoots are long. The plant 

 is pale-green. The lobes of the leaves are acute, 

 3-5. The sepals are oblong, lance-shaped, more 

 or less acute. The plant is 2-4 in. high. 



Saxifraga sponhemica, Gmel. (= S. quinquefida, 

 Haw. =5. hirta, Donn). The habitat of this plant 

 is mountains. The plant is rare. The plant has 

 the rosette or cushion habit. The stems are erect, 

 glandular, with few linear leaves. The leaves of 

 the barren shoots are 3-5 lobed, broad-based, 

 fringed with linear-acute lobes, few, 5-cleft. The 

 flowers are white, 2-4. The calyx is half-inferior, 

 deeply divided. The sepals are awl-like, triangu- 

 lar. The petals are oblong, 3-veined. The anthers 

 are half as large as in C. ccespitosa. The capsule 

 is spreading. The plant is in flower in July, is 

 1-3 in. high, and a herbaceous perennial. 



Mossy Saxifrage (Saxifraga hypnoides, L.). 

 The habitat of this plant is hilly subalpine rocks 

 and mountains. The plant has the cushion or 

 rosette habit. There are buds in the axils of the 

 barren shoots. The flowering stems are stout or 

 slender, leafy, the leaves linear, simple, broad or 

 lobed, erect, the barren shoots long, prostrate, 

 with the leaves entire or 3-cleft. The plant is 

 hairless, or glandular hairy. The plant forms 

 large loose tufts. The leaves are flat or chan- 

 nelled, entire, linear, acute, the radical leaves 3-5 

 cleft, the leaf-stalk broad with a flattened margin. 

 The flowers are white, few or several, bell-shaped. 

 The sepals are united above the middle. The 

 calyx-tube is short, inversely conical, the calyx 

 half-inferior, the sepals spreading, triangular to 

 awl-like, or egg-shaped, acute. The capsule is 

 not included in the calyx-tube, the beak nearly 

 erect, the horns spreading at an obtuse angle. 

 The plant is 2-12 in. high, flowering from May to 

 July, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



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Orpine Stone-crop or Roseroot (Sedum Rhodwla, 

 D.C. =S. roseum, Scop.). The habitat of this plant 



is moist alpine and subalpine rocks, and sea cliffs. 

 The plant has the rosette habit. The rootstock is 

 thick, cylindrical, fleshy, branched, woody, stout, 

 perennial, smelling of roses. The stems are annual, 

 simple, fleshy. The buds are scale -like. The 

 leaves are bluish-green, fleshy, inversely ovate, 

 lance-shaped, alternate, oblong, smooth, above 

 larger and crowded, acute, toothed at the apex. 

 The flowers are yellow or purple, in compact, 

 terminal, corymb-like cymes, the parts in fours. 

 The plant is dioecious. The sepals are narrow. 

 The petals are linear, smaller, or wanting in 

 female flowers. The scales are notched. There 

 are 8 stamens. The plant is 6-18 in. high, flower- 

 ing from May to August, and is a herbaceous 

 perennial. 



White Stone -crop (Sedum album, L.). The 

 habitat of this species is rocks and walls. The 

 plant has the cushion habit. The plant is hairless 

 or slightly glandular. The flowering stems are 

 curved below, then erect; the barren stems are 

 purplish, leafy, prostrate, rooting. The leaves 

 are oblong, blunt, bright-green, alternate, nearly 

 cylindric, narrow below, flat above, spreading. 

 The flowers are white, with petals twice as long 

 as the green sepals, oblong to lance-shaped, in 

 a much-branched panicle, hairless. The plant is 

 3-5 in. high, flowering in July and August, and 

 is a herbaceous perennial. 



Thick-leaved Stone-crop (Sedum dasyphyllum, 

 L.). This plant is not uncommon on old walls 

 and rocks. The plant has the cushion habit. The 

 stems are all prostrate, then ascending, the plant 

 loosely tufted, bluish-green, pink, glandular,downy, 

 much-branched. The flowering-stems are weak, 

 wavy, slender. The barren stems are short, with 

 opposite, rounded or ovoid leaves in a rosette. 

 The leaves are short, fleshy, thick, gibbous, bluish- 

 green, equal below, reddish. The flowers are 

 rose-white, in a small panicle or forked cyme, few, 

 glandular, downy. The sepals, petals, and carpels 

 may be in sixes. The sepals are ovate, blunt, as 

 are the petals, the latter with pink streaks. The 

 plant is 2-3 in. high, flowering in June and July, 

 and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Tasteless Mountain Stone-crop (Sedum sex- 

 angulare, L.). The habitat of this Stone-crop is 

 old walls in the E. of England, and the plant is 

 very rare. The plant has the cushion habit. It 

 is smooth, with an insipid taste. The stems form 

 a loose tuft, the barren stems having crowded 

 leaves in 6 rows, the flowering -stems looser, 

 spreading or bent back. The leaves are cvlindri- 

 cal, linear, blunt, spreading, spurred below, the 

 spurs acute, touching the stem. The flowers are 

 yellow, in a corymb-like cyme, which is smooth 

 and 3-branched. The flowers are more or less 

 stalkless. The sepals are lance-shaped, acute, 

 not gibbous; the petals are lance-shaped, acute. 

 The plant is 3-6 in. high, flowering in July and 

 August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Crooked Saxifrage or Large Yellow Saxifrage 

 (Sedum reflexum, L.). The habitat of this species 

 is rocks and housetops, walls. The plant has the 

 rosette habit. It is like the last, but larger. The 



