CLASS X. ORDER IV.J SEDUM. 663 



leafy; leaves fleshy, alternate, ovale, gibbous at tbe base; cyme 

 smooth, few flowered ; petals mlh a tapering point, as long again as 

 the ovate calyx segments. 



English Botany, t. 171.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 317. — Hooker, 

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



i?oo< small, fibrous. Stem round, smooth, slender, pale and glau- 

 cous, simple, erect, but mostly much branched from the base, the 

 branches spreading, procumbent and rooting, the barren branches 

 densely crowded with alternate leaves, especially towards the ends, into 

 a club-shape, two, three, or rarely four inches high. Leaves crowded, 

 alternate, ovate, obtuse, sessile, and spurred at the base, fleshy, smooth, 

 of a glaucous green, but sometimes like the branches of a reddish 

 colour. Inflorescence cymose, smooth, of two spreading branches, with 

 a solitary flower from the axis. Flowers few, nearly sessile. Calyx of 

 live oblong obtuse or acutely pointed segments. Petals five, lanceo- 

 late, with a narrow tapering point, white, or spotted with red, with a 

 purplish mid-rib, and mostly two lateral ones. Stamens on slender 

 filaments, a little shorter than the petals. Anthers roundish, kidney- 

 shaped, purple, of two cells. Styles with small stigmas, downy. 

 Capsules smooth. 



Habitat. — Dry sandy and rocky places, especially near the sea ; 

 common in North Wales, most abundant in Scotland and Ireland. 



Annual ; flowering in June and July. 



5. S. album, Linn. (Fig. 755.) White Stonecrop. Stem erect, with 

 procumbent rooting branches ; leaves scattered, linear-oblong, sub- 

 cylindrical, obtuse, spreading; panicle smooth, sub-cymose, much 

 branched ; petals lanceolate, three times longer than the obtuse calyx 

 segments. 



English Botany, t. 1578. — English Flora, vol. ii. p. 320. — Hooker, 

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



Root long, with slender branched fibres. Stem erect, from four to 

 six inches high, roundish, smooth, mostly of a purplish colour below, 

 with prostrate rooting branches. Leaves smooth, of a glaucous green, 

 rarely of a reddish colour, scattered, spreading, linear oblong, obtuse, 

 cylindrical, somewhat flattened on the upper side, sessile, from half to 

 an inch long. Inflorescence a smooth terminal much branched suh- 

 cymose panicle, of numerous crowded white or pale rose coloured 

 fiotvers, each flower on a short footstalk. Calyx of five ovate obtuse 

 smooth segments. Petals thrice as long as the calyx, lanceolate, with 

 an acute or obtuse point, white or pale rose colour, with a slender 

 mid-rib. Stamens about as long as the petals, with slender filaments, 

 and small roundish kidney-shaped anthers, of a dark purplish colour. 

 Styles with small obtuse dow ny stiymas. Capsule smooth, membranous. 



Habitat. — Rocks, old walls, and roofs of houses ; rare. Kentish 

 Town and Bromley, Middlesex ; about Great Malvern, Worcestershire, 



