BRYOPHTU.UM. LXIT. ORASSULACE2B. 977 



10 ; carpels 4 5, distinct, many-seeded, with an entire scale at the 

 base of each. Mostly herbaceous. Inflorescence cymose. Fls. mostly 

 pentamcroux. 



. 1. S. TKi.Ki'iiiuloKfl. Michx. 



/>.<. broadly lanceolate, attenuate at bnsc, subdcntate, smooth; cyme* 

 dense;, corymbose; sta. 10. the petals, sepals andearpeliln6i.--Foundon rocks, 

 lake and river HhorcM, N. Y., N. J., Harper*! Ferry, Va. I &c. Ktem a loot 

 high. Leaves 1 2' lon^:, | an wide. Flower* numerous, purple, in a terminal, 

 branching cyme, Jn. Aug. Like the other pcciet, very tenacious of life. 

 My specimens, gathered several months since at Harper's Ferry, are h ill grow- 

 ing in the dry papers. 



2. S. TKKNATUM. Michx. Sterne-crop. 



Lrs. ternately verticillate, obovate, flat, smooth, entire, the upper ones 

 scattered, sessile, lanceolate ; cyme in about 3 spikwtjll. iecund, the central 

 one with K) stamens, the rest with only 8. % in Can. West, Perm, the South- 

 ern and Western States, Plimmer I Cultivated In N. JCng. Sterns 38' long, 

 branching and decumbent at base, asstirgent above. Cyme with the 3 branches 

 spreading and recurved, the white (lowers loosely arranged on their upper side. 

 TJ. Aug. f 



3. S. TKI.KPHIUM. Common Orpine. tAve-fnrcvcr.RL tuberous, fleshy, 

 white; st. 1 or 2f high, erect; Ivs. flattish. ovate, obtuse, serrate, scattered ; 

 cyme corymbose, leafy. 71 From Europe. Cultivated and nearly naturalized. 

 Sterns simple, leafy, round, smooth, purplish. Leaves sessile, fleshy. Flowers 

 white and purple, m dense, terminal, leafy tufts. Aug. f 



4. S. ANACAMi-sfcnos. Hvcrgrecn Stone-crop. Ill,, fibrous; st. decumbent; 

 Iv.t. cuneiform, attenuate at base; cymes corymbose, leafy. 71 Native of Eu- 

 rope, growing there in crevices ol rocks. Kleins reddish and decumbent at 

 base, erect and glaucous above. Lvs. fleshy, bluish green. Fls, purple. Jl. f 



5. S. ACHB. Englixh MUM. Wall Pepper.- Ytw. urn bent, spreading, branch- 

 ing from the base; lw. very small, somewhat ovale, fleshy, crowded, alternate, 

 closely sessile, obtuse, nearly erect; cyme few-flowered, trifid, leafy. From 

 Great Britain. In cultivation it spreads rapidly on walls, borders of flower- 

 beds, &e. densely covering the surface. Flowers yellow. The whole plant 

 abounds in an acrid, biting juice, f 



3.'SEMPERVI VUM. 



Liit. temper vlvere, to live forever; in ullunion to thuir tenacity of Ufa. 



Sepals 6 20, slightly cohering at base ; petals as many as sepals, 

 acuminate ; stamens twice as many as petals ; hypogynous scales la- 

 cerated ; carpels as many as the petals. 7V Jlc.rhaci'ou* plants or 

 shrubs, 'propagated by axillary offsets. Lvs. thick, fleshy. 



1. S. TKCTOHUM. House-leek. f/vx. fringed ; ojjwts spreading. A well known 

 plant of the gardens, with thick, fleshy, mucilaginous leaves. It sends out 

 runners with offsets, rarely flowering. It is so succulent and hardy that ft will 

 grow on dry walls, and on the roofs of houses (tcctorum). It Is sometimes 

 placed in the borders of flowcr-beda. 



2. 8. ARBOUKUM. Tree Hoiixe-lMk.St. arlwscent. smooth, branched ; Ivx. 

 cuneiform, sraoothish, bordered with soft, spreading cilicn. A curious and or- 

 namental evergreen, from the Levant, Stern very thick and fleshy, branching 

 into a tree- like form, 8 lOf high (1 31' in pots). Fls. yellow, rarely appearing. 



4. BRYOPHYLLUM. Salisb. 



Gr. Qfivd), to rrow, 0vXXf , leaf j i, e, germinating from n leaf. 



Calyx inflated, 4-cleft scarcely to the middle ; corolla monopeto- 

 lous, the tube long and cylindrical, 4-sidcd arid obtuse at base ; limb 

 in 4 triangular, ucuto lobes; seeds many, An. evergreen, flrxhi/. 



