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about 7 very irregularly-spiral longitudinal lines on the barren 

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

 fect rosette, more distant and reflexed or spreading on the flower- 

 ing-stems, cylindrical, scarcely flattened above or beneath, subulate 

 at the apex, produced at the base into a short rather blunt scale- 

 like spur applied to the stem. Flowers generally bractcate, 

 yellow, shortly stalked, numerous, in a corymbose cyme, with 

 several usually forked scorpioid branches, which are recurved 

 when in flower, and spreading or spreading-ascending in fruit. 

 Sepals oblong-cylindrical, somewhat acute, not produced down- 

 wards at the base. Petals strap-shaped, acute, spreading. 



Sub-Species I.— Seclum eu-reflexurti. 



Plate DXXXIV. 

 S. reflexum, Stn. Eng. Bot. No. 695. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p. 626. 

 S. reflexum, var. o, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 130. 



Leaves green, those on the flowering-stem reflexed. Flowers 

 bright yellow. 



On walls, dry banks, and house-tops, rarely on rocks. Not 

 uncommon, but having little claim to be considered a true native, 

 unless in Denbighshire and Ireland, where it is said to grow on 

 rocks. 



England ? [Scotland,] Ireland ? Perennial. Summer. 



Barren stems elongated, lying on the ground, sending up nu- 

 merous ascending or erect elongated barren shoots and erect or 

 somewhat flexuous flowering-stems, 9 inches to 1 foot high. Leaves 

 2 to x inch long, distant towards the base of the barren shoots, but 

 crowded towards the apex, where they form a tuft rather than a 

 rosette. Flowers bright yellow, very often 6-merous, nearly i inch 

 across According to Mons. Crepin (Notes sur PI. Pares ou Crit. 

 de la Belgique, Fascicule I. p. 11), the stamens have transparent 

 hairs at the base, and carpels are rugose on the inner side ; but I 

 have not found these characters constant in the specimens which 

 have come under my observation. 



S. septangulare (llaworth) has been found at Winscombe, Somer- 

 set, by Mr. Lloyd : it appears, from a dried specimen I have seen, 

 to be merely a luxuriant form of S. eu-reflexum, such as it often 

 assumes when cultivated. 



Yellow Stone-crop. 



French Sedum reflechi. German, Zuriickgekrummte Fetlhenne. 

 In Holland the leaves and young shoots of this species are used for salads, and are 

 probably wholesome in small quantities, though they partake of the acridity of the wall- 

 pepper. 



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