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male than in the female flowers, from which they are sometimes 

 entirely absent. Pistils rudimentary in the male flowers, often 

 turning dull purplish-red in the female. Follicles connivent, with 

 a short spreading- beak, f inch long. Plant pale-green, glabrous and 

 glaucous ; leaves fleshy. 



Rose-root. 



French, Orpin a odeur de Rose. German, Rosenwwrz. 

 The root of this pretty plant has a pleasant rose-like odour ; when freshly broken, 

 the perfume is delicious, and it retains this scent for some weeks. In Greenland the leaves 

 are used for salads, and are also applied in cataplasms for headaches by the peasantry. 



SPECIES II.— S EDUM TELEPHIUM. Linn. 

 Plates DXXVI. DXXVII. 

 Leaves sessile or narrowed into a very short petiole, alternate 

 (rarely opposite), scattered, flattish or slightly concave, oblong- 

 oval, oblong - obovate or oblong - oblanceolate, irregularly dentate 

 or dentate-serrate, often entire at the base, obtuse at the apex. 

 Flowers perfect, in fasciculate cymes, of which several are ar- 

 ranged in a dense terminal corymb, and in large examples a few 

 additional ones are produced beneath this corymb, from the 

 axils of the leaves a little way down the stem. Calyx 5-partite. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 10. Follicles 5. 



Live-long or Everlasting Orpine. 



The specific name is derived from Telephus, the son of Hercules, who is said to 

 have discovered its virtues. The whole plant is mucilaginous, and slightly astringent. 

 It is a popular remedy for diarrhoea and hemorrhoids. Withering says it is diuretic. 

 Sheep and goats eat it, but horses refuse it. The leaves are sometimes used as a salad. 



Sub-Species I.— Sedum purpurascens. Koch. 



Plate DXXVI. 



S. Telephium, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1319. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 129. Gr. & Godr. 



Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. G18. 

 S. Telephium, var. a, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 156. 



Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite, the lower ones somewhat 

 wedge-shaped towards the base ; the upper ones sessile, rounded at 

 the base, but not cordate. Flowers purplish-rose, rarely white. 

 Ovaries slightly flattened and furrowed on the back. 



On hedgebanks and in thickets. Not uncommon, and generally 

 distributed, but probably escaped from cultivation in many of its 

 localities. 



England, Scotland, Ireland ? Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



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