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what resembles and has been taken for S. oxypetalum, but it is of 
much more open growth, with lighter colored flowers. It must also 
be related to S. tortuosum. 
Sedum nutans Rose, sp. nov. 
Perennial, with a thick woody caudex; basal leaves forming a 
broad rosette, thickish, obovate, 4-7 cm. long, 2.5-3 cm. broad at 
widest point, glabrous; flowering eee about 1 dm. long, bear- 
c 
alge ot parted, its hae linear-oblong, somewhat unequal, 4-6 
rounded at apex; petals bright yellow, ovate, 6 mm. 
ie ae meee 10, Beek to the base; scales retuse; carpels 
erect. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on mossy cliffs of Tepoxtlan, More- 
los, altitude 2,250 meters, February 8, 1899 (no. 6980). 
Sedum Nelsoni Rose, sp. nov. 
Caulescent, pices eee above,I—1.5 dm. nee branches 
brownish and tuberculately roughened; leaves (at least in her- 
barium specimens) thin and distinctly nerved, ate 2.5-3.5 
cm. long, 6-7 mm. broad at widest point, narrowed at base into a 
rather distinct petiole and extending below the point of insertion 
into a broad spur; inflorescence a few-flowered cyme; pedicels 4— 
. long; sepals distinct, unequal, the longer ones 8 mm. long; 
petals free (?) to the ie Sea acute, yellowish but ‘with a 
road reddish stripe on t ack; stamens opposite the petals borne 
high upon them, the ce attached ae or near their bases; carpels 
widely spreading from the very base. 
Collected by E. W. Nelson on the road between Ayusinapa and 
Petatlan, Guerrero, Mexico, December 14, 1894 (no. 2191). 
Resembling somewhat S. confusum Hemsl., but the flowers are 
not sessile. 
Sedum (?) longipes Rose, sp. nov. 
Stems slender, creeping, rooting at the joints; sterile branches 
bearing dense rosettes of small orbicular leaves ; flowering branches 
obtuse, 2-3 mm. long; petals purple, 4-5 mm. long, lanceolate, 
apparently keeled near the tip; scales (for the genus very conspicu- 
ous) strongly 2-lobed, each lobe with several teeth at apex; sta- 
mens 10, shorter than. the petals. 
Collected by C. G. Pringle on the mossy ledges of conglom- 
erate of the Sierra de Tepoxtlan, Morelos, February 8, 1899 
(no. $049) 
