50 ENGLISH! BOTANY. 



Rootstock thickened, fleshy, producing small parsnip-shaped 

 tubers with a whitish-grey rind. Stems stout, 1 to 2 feet high, erect 

 but often shortly decumbent at the base, unbranched below. Leaves 

 largest and closest about the middle of the stem, where they are 

 1| to 3 inches long, the lower ones obovate-oblong, narrowed towards 

 the base, the upper ones regulaidy oval-oblong and rounded at the 

 base, all sharply dentate-serrate from a little above the base to the 

 apex. Flowers in numerous small corymbose cymes united into a 

 large terminal one f inch across. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, speckled 

 with red. Petals thrice as long as the calyx, recurved, whitish suf- 

 fused with dull purplish-rose. Anthers and ovaries reddish. Folli- 

 cles connivent, gradually tapering into a rather long beak, about 

 | inch long. Plant glabrous ; leaves fleshy, slightly glaucous. 



Broad-leaved Orpine. 



French, Orpin Porpurin. German, Purpurrolhe Fetllienne. 



Sub-Species II.— Sedum Fabaria. Koch 



Plate DXXVII. 



" S. purpureum, Tausch. Bot. Zeit. Vol. XVII. ii. p. 515," Koch. 

 S. Telephium, var. j3, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 156. 



Leaves alternate, both the lower and the upper ones wedge- 

 shaped towards the base and narrowed into a very short indistinct 

 petiole. Ovaries not furrowed on the back. 



On rocks, also said to occur in hedges and thickets. Apparently 

 more rare than S. purpurascens. I have seen it from Carnarvon- 

 shire, Shropshire, Westmoreland, and have gathered it myself on 

 rocks by the sea-shore at the mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay, which 

 is the only station in which I have observed either of the forms of 

 S. Telephium truly indigenous. One of the forms occurs in 

 Ulster, but I am unable to say whether it be S. purpurascens or 

 S. Fabaria. 



England, Scotland, Ireland ? Perennial. Summer and 

 Early Autumn. 



Extremely like S. purpurascens, of which it may he merely a 

 variety. It is, however, more slender and smaller in all its parts, 

 the leaves considerably narrower, deeper green, the (lowers more 

 highly coloured ; the petals are said to he spreading, and not re- 

 curved : but this is not the case in any of the fresh specimens 

 which I have examined. The stamens are attached to the petals 

 a little higher up than in S. purpurascens, and the ovaries are 

 rather shorter. 



The figure is drawn from a fresh cultivated specimen sent by 



