jury 25, 1874.] 
ford 
GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
103 
ar Cirencester, EEEE E 
with great later > 
stershire, these lateral 
en the river, and place the 
stream as it flows over its r bed in "dee ep shadow 
oe ie H ok are, however, rare, 
que appea I 
n of this description’ ‘existing a 
ich vicin ity 
farmer delights to create, the bark of the trees be- 
comes excessively rugged, and in this coco z will -n 
gi hened period. The 
stump of a Wych Elm, hacked, Sae and hollow, 
; . . to op o 
sandstone rock, on edge of Shrawle ood, 
Worcestershire, which mak icturesque object 
and must be of considerable age (see fig. 22). It 
has sent down roots to th tom of the 
S Just on ie n precipe a khan wed stands 
Old and decrepid, yet a 
f hoary ‘Time, Bas there with outstretched rece: 
ridge ack’ 
rds, firmer are its ane H 
ix of Nyah: sppled t to this — of Elm 
er from an ? igin is 
dhs ree ‘ane ite: blaktis ied ae 
is it to root out at least the memory of the super- 
t ays. 
stitious usages of olden da: 
_ The common Elm, when it grows n the vicinity of 
cities, is often vc d by the insidious attacks of a 
little beetle pertinently named lyt i wena 
but I never es bserved this within the bark of th 
Elm. The ngli m is certainly + the 
favourite for aati: but it is remarkable that in the 
find it more convenient to 
the Wyc 
ve seen 
As 
and he a 
er so ahera innocent and indeed exalted gratifi- 
a friend, 
agains selv: 
ee. Wore, tons 
ON HARDY SEMPERVIVUMS. 
_Durine the we ne years that hardy Semper- 
uch in vogu orative 
e been published, cae nea one 
pet 
ULIC UL 
, 
rs are lost in 
r, having this summer 
sifed catalo 
I do not think itw to 
most of these, if — y one who had a good opportunity 
forms would ha ; 
No doubt many of the garden eps hybrids, per- 
petuated by popne An, go areca 
ern 
es in garden use not 
ee in th the following list will, ce rete be 
found o pat A to p ts already 
S| "Rca help in in p yemedying this ev 
papers on mep esigier vies, where 
a considerable cay SASS of forms are fully described or 
ad 
Ce) 3 
it. 
figures. 3. Ztudes sur le genre Sempervivum, 
Lamotte, an 8vo — of 57 pages, ‘abled a “4 
ermont-Ferra d 
d part of 
oo; 
© 
1872, pp. 233— 
sible in London, aba ` 
the following catalogu 
GENUS SEMPERVIVUM, Linn. ` 
Semperv Op pane and sepals 
ten to twelve, Famecaiih gic the same 
suddenly into piser stellately 
rtenjiori 
Copies of all these are acces- 
been used in drawing up 
Sub-genus 1. 
each 
ber, narrowed 
divergent styles 
Division 1.—True Sempervivums with red flowers 
i. Group of S. tectorum. ves glabrous on the 
pree pe a ia by a regular fringe of hairs not 
4—ş line long. 
gee T, DE large, 0 obovate-spathulate, red- 
tipped, ł inch broad. 
spel ct ., as figured Eng. Bot., 
; Baxter, Brit. BoE e 4o01. 
ARoS t. 1320 ; 
Reginæ-Amaliæ, Held. et Sart. I do not find 
any description of this, but it is vagiitienisd in Boissier’s 
3. S. Mettenianum, Lehm. et Schnitt., “Flora, 1855, 
Pp. 4. 
4. rvernense, Lecoq. et Lamotte, Cat., p-. 1795 
Boreau, Fiore du Centre, edit. 3, p. 25 
Etudes, p. 24, with a of t 
larum, lesurinum, and pyrenai 
Leg andi, F, Schu pa Flora, I 
said to = a ‘synonym ex pa arte. 
5 S. alpinum, Griseb. et Schenck, Linnæa, 25, p. 600, 
. S. dolomiticum, Facchini, Flora, 1854, p. 482. 
Soc. Bo 
. 30; “Oct., 1867, is 
: Guillemoti motte, t. France, 
1856, vol. iii., p. 457; Etudes, p. 2 
8. S. Bouti 7 ea Billot et bern: = eae Flor. 
ee 4 qre aces Trans ps 
rr. S. modestum, Jord. et Four., eed fig. 197- 
12. S. robustum, Jord. et Four., Icones, fig. 200. 
13. S. saxosum, . et Four., Icones, fig. 207. 
14. S. rigidum, Jord. et Four., Icones, fig. 208, — 
15. S. cantalicum fie m et Four., Icones, fig. 209. 
16, S. leptopetalum, Jord. et Four., Icones, fig. 210. 
17. S. erubescens, Jord. et Four., Icones, fig. 211. 
18. S. dicranocladon, Jord. et Four., Icones, fig. 212. 
19. S. corymbosum, Jord, et Four., Icones, fig. 213. 
20. S. constrictum, Jord. et Four., Ico g. 214 
ar. S. eo Tord. et Four., Brev. ii., p. 33- 
22. S. collinum, Jord. et. Four., Brev. +» Be 39: 
23. 5. $ speciosum, Lamotte, Etudes, p 
24. S. Lamotte, Et P- "ig ; 
Sub- 
g.—Leaves sh and coloured as in the 
“3 parvulum, ord. et Four, „ Icones; fig. 204. , 
z cna Jori e Four, Brev. ii., P- 43. 
R = p~ ès oblanceolate-spathulate, = 
sibs ong, ag, ft == hao age Bape SS 
27. S. co E få ae Ons" vii., p. 26; Jord 
Four., Icones, fig. 194; Lamotte, Etudes, p. 34 (S. cali 
fo 
rnicum, Hort.). 
28. S. racemosum, Jord. et Four., Icones, Nig sees 
-S Jord. et, Sa, Icones, 
a. Se et Brey. is P. 44, 
Z, s. i . a 
S apie SP qr. 
Sub-group 5.— and shape asin the last, 
aa itl i an Fobseurt red ti 
35. S. glaucum, Tenore; Lehm. et Schnitt. . Flora, 
3 P- 3: 
S. Camollei; get Fl. Berg., | 
2 S; Schlehani, ott, qrii h -ro 1853; 
38. S. Schottii, Baker ; a : 
Ester, Meer 1853, P: ee is: “put the Ba name fe el > 
or a Himala. an species | Decaisne, Jac- ae 
