662 SEDUM. [CLASS X. ORDER IV. 



tered, erect, sessile, linear oblong, obtuse, half an inch long, or shorter, 

 rounded at the back, flattened above, fleshy, green or purplish, and 

 more or less clothed with glandular pubescence, especially on the upper 

 part of the stem, the lower ones often quite smooth. Inflorescence 

 terminal sub-racemose panicles. Flotvers on slender pedicles, and as 

 well as the ovate acute segments of the calyx clothed with glandular 

 pubescence. Petals ovale, acute, about as long again as the calyx, 

 pale pink, or rose colour, with purple veins. Stamens on slender fila- 

 ments, shorter than the petals. Anthers roundish, heart-shaped, of two 

 cells. Styles with obtuse stigmas, forming a persistent point to the 

 somewhat downy capsules^ purplish. 



Habitat. — Wet and stony places, especially on the side of rills in the 

 North of England and Scotland ; most abundant in the sub-alpine 

 districts. 



Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



** Stem with procumbent rooting branches, 

 a. Leaves rounded. Flotcers white or pinkish. 



3. S. dasyphyV htm, Linn, (Fig. 753.) Thick-leaved Stonecrop. 



Stem with procumbent rooting branches ; barren branches densely 



leafy; leaves short, roundish, ovate, fleshy, sessile, mostly opposite; 



panicle glanduloso-pubescent; petals ovate, acute, twice as long as the 



obtuse calyx segments- 

 English Botany, t. 656. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 316. — Hooker, 



British Flora, vol. i. p. 212. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 64. 



Root small, fibrous. Stem round, slender, weak, branched and 

 leafy, the lower branches procumbent and rooting, the barren ones 

 densely leafy, crowded in a rosaceous manner at the extremity. Leaves 

 fleshy, pale green and glaucous, like the stems, ovato-globose, sessile, 

 opposite below, mostly alternate on the flowering stems, often of a 

 reddish tinge, and dotted over. Inflorescence paniculated with slender 

 glandulo-pubescent branches. Calyx of short ovate obtuse segments. 

 Petals white, or pale rose colour, ovate, acute, twice as long as the 

 calyx, or longer, with a dark coloured mid-rib. Stamens with slender 

 filaments, nearly as long as the petals. Anthers roundish, heart- 

 shaped, pink. Styles with small downy stigmas. Capsules pointed 

 with the base of the styles, smooth. 



Habitat. — Old walls and rocks in various parts of England. Con- 

 way, Wales. — Mr. W. Wilson. Collington Woods, Edinburgh, 

 Scotland. Cork, Ireland. — Mr. Drummond. 



Perennial ; flowering in J une. 



The calyx segments, petals, and pistils, vary in number from five to 

 eight, and the stamens double these numbers; but otherwise it is 

 constant to the above characters. 



4. S. AngWcum, Huds. (Fig. 754.) White English Stonecrop. 

 Stem with procumbent rooting branches; barren branches densely 



