56 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



SPECIES VIII— S EDUM SEXANGULARE. Linn. 

 Platk DXXXIII. 

 S. Boloniense, Lois. Gr. & Godr. FL de Fr. Vol. I. p. G26. 



Stems laxly tufted, much-branched, producing numerous de- 

 cumbent rooting barren shoots below the flowering ones. Leaves 

 rather crowded, in about 6 spirally - longitudinal rows on the 

 barren shoots, at the termination of which they form a tuft or 

 imperfect rosette; more distant and ascending-recurved on the 

 flowering-shoots, cylindrical, scarcely flattened above or beneath, 

 produced at the base into a short acute scale-like spur applied 

 to the stem. Flowers yellow, sub-sessile, rather numerous, in a 

 corymbose cyme, with 2 to 4 (generally 3) sub-scorpioid branches. 

 Sepals oblong-cylindrical, obtuse, not produced downwards at the 

 base. Petals linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading. Follicles not 

 swollen at the base on the inner side. 



On walls, but not native, though it has been reported from 

 several of the English counties. I have only seen it from Syden- 

 ham, Kent, and Malham, Yorkshire. 



[England.] Perennial. Summer. 



Stems procumbent, producing numerous rather elongated barren 

 tufts, with the leaves rather distant below, but crowded towards 

 the apex, which terminates in a compact rosette. Flowering-stems 

 erect, 3 to 6 inches high, sometimes branched towards the top. 

 Leaves I inch long, nearly the same width and thickness through- 

 out, curved just above the base, and with the apices spreading at 

 right angles to the stem ; spur more acute than in S. acre, thinner 

 and somewhat scale-like. Flowers f inch across, with the petals 

 narrower in proportion than in S. acre ; the carpels are also less 

 spreading than in that species. The ripe seeds, which I have not 

 seen, are said by Grenier and Godron to be tuber culated. 



S. sexangulare is represented in the Linnoean Herbarium by the 

 lax form of S. acre. 



Insipid Stone-crop. 



French, Sedum & Six A wjles. German, Scharfe Feltlienne. 



SPECIES IX.-S E D U M REFLEXUM. Linn. 



Plates DXXXIV. DXXXV. 



Stems very laxly tufted, much-branched, producing numerous 



decumbent barren shoots rooting at the base and erect at the 



apex below the flowering - shoots. Leaves rather crowded, in 



