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NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 22 
Sedum refiexum. 
Add to the illustrations: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2. f. 2139; G. T. Stevens, Ill. 
Guide p/. 59, f. 6. 
Insert: 
24a. Sedum versadense C. H. Thompson, Trans. Acad. St. Louis 20: 23. 1911. 
Low, much branched, sometimes 2 dm. high. Basal leaves in rosettes; stem-leaves 
alternate, closely set, especially below, sessile, obovate-cuneate to obcordate-cuneate, 
1.3-2.5 cm. long, fleshy, flattened, pubescent; inflorescence divided into 2 or 3 nodding 
secund racemes; pedicels 3 mm. long; sepals distinct, lanceolate, unequal, a little shorter 
than the petals, spreading; petals spreading, later becoming recurved, light purplish-pink 
to nearly white, lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long; carpels erect, distinct. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Versada, Oaxaca. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Trans. Acad. St. Louis 20: pl. 12. 
Insert: 
28a. Sedum delicatum Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 297. 1911. 
Stems from small fleshy, fusiform tubers, 1-2 cm., or in cultivated specimens as much 
as 4cm. high, usually simple below. Leaves club-shaped, nearly terete in section, obtuse, 
alternate; inflorescence a few-flowered (2- to 5-flowered) cyme; pedicels slender, sometimes 
15 mm. long; sepals 4 or 5, very unequal, similar to the leaves, the longer ones much 
exceeding the petals; petals white, 2 mm. long, obtuse, ascending; stamens 8 or 10; 
anthers purplish; carpels 5, widely spreading in age. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Above timber line on Ixtaccihuatl, Mexico (state). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
Insert: 
29a. Sedum oaxacanum Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 299. 1911. 
Stem creeping, rooting at the joints, reddish, somewhat roughened. Leaves rather 
closely set but not imbricate, usually standing nearly at right angles to the stem, thick 
but not terete, rounded on the back, flat on the face, obtuse, with broad base, glabrous, 
5-6 mm. long; flowers solitary, terminal, sessile, or sometimes as many as 4 in a small 
terminal cyme; sepals linear, 3 mm. long, distinct nearly to the base; petals yellow, dis- 
tinct, longer than the sepals; stamens 10; carpels 5, widely spreading, with long styles. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cerro San Felipe, Oaxaca. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca. 
Sedum Douglasii. 
Add the synonyms: Sedum Douglasii uniflorum M. E. Jones, Bull. Univ. Mont. 61: 
30. 1910. ?Sedum Elrodi M. E. Jones, Bull. Univ. Mont. 61: 30. pl. 4. 1910. 
Add: ILLUSTRATION: Armstrong, Field Book W. Wild FI. 193. 
Insert: 
40a. Sedum frutescens Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 298. 1911. 
Leaves linear, flattened, 2-6 cm. long, bright-green, acute, closely set upon the branches, 
rounded and free at base; inflorescence a small, few-branched cyme; peduncle 1 cm. or 
less long; branches 3-4 cm. long; petals white, 5-6 mm. long, acuminate; carpels widely 
spreading. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Above Cuernavaca, Morelos. 
DISTRIBUTION: High mountains of the state of Morelos. 
40b. Sedum Quevae Hamet, Bot. Jahrb. 50: Beibl. 114: 25. 1914. 
Perennial, 2-4 dm. high, glabrous, tuberous. Leaves alternate, sessile, 5-23 mm. long, 
obtuse; inflorescence paniculate, open; flowers subsessile; sepals 5, obtuse, nearly linear; 
petals longer than the tube, deltoid, acute and mucronate, 5—6 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Aseseca, Puebla. 
DISTRIBUTION: Central Mexico. 
