Crassu lacecz Crassu la. 189 



glabrous, or ciliate. Nearly all of the species, numbering 150, 

 are from South Africa, a few from the Himalayas. There are* 

 no hardy species in cultivation, but some of them are employed 

 for bedding out in Summer. The name is the diminutive of 

 crassus, thick or fleshy. 



1. G. coccinea (fig. 101), syn. 

 Kalosdnthes coccinea. This is the 

 only species in general cultivation. 

 It grows about 2 feet high, and 

 produces large clusters of crimson, 

 scarlet, rose or pink flowers, accord- 

 ing to the varieties. 



2. SBDUM. 



Succulent usually prostrate herbs 

 with alternate opposite or whorled 

 leaves, seldom in rosettes. Parts of 

 the flower in fives or fours ; stamens 

 twice as many as petals. 1 20 species, 

 chiefly from the temperate and frigid 

 zones of the north. Name from 

 sedeo, to sit, referring to the pro- 

 strate habit of most species on rocks 

 and stones. 



1. S. acre. Biting Stonecrop, 

 Wall Pepper, or Poor Man's Pepper. 

 This indigenous trailing yellow- 

 flowered species is perhaps the com- 

 monest in Cultivation. It Spreads Fig.lOl. Crassula coccinea. (Jnat.sise.) 



so rapidly that it is well suited to 



cover rock-work, &c. It is quite glabrous, with small scale-like 

 imbricate leaves and numerous flowers rising only a few inches 

 from the ground. 



2. 8. reflexum. Another yellow-flowering species, growing 

 from 6 inches to a foot high. Leaves crowded, cylindric, re- 

 flexed, about an incli long. Flowers in terminal flat cymes. 

 This species spreads very fast, and has become naturalised in 

 several parts of Britain. 



3. S. album. Flowering-stems erect. Leaves glabrous, 

 cylindric, oblong, about 6 lines long. Flowers white. A 

 native of North Britain. 



4. 8. Telephium, syn. 8. purpureum. Orpine. Stems 



