222 THE CEASSTJLA FAMILY. 



In clefts of rocks, in northern and Arctic Europe and Asia, and in the 

 higher mountain-ranges of central Europe and Asia. Abundant in Scot- 

 land and in the higher mountains of northern England and Ireland, descend- 

 ing also to maritime cliiFs in western Scotland. Fl. summer. The smell 

 of the rootstock, when drying, has been compared to that of roses, whence 

 its specific name. 



2. Orpine Sedum. Sedum Telephmm, Linn. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 1319. S. purpiireum, Bab. Man. Orpine. Livelong.) 

 Rootstock perennial, the annual stems hard, erect, simple, about a foot 

 high or rather more. Leaves scattered, obovate or oblong, and coarsely 

 toothed ; the lower ones 2 inches long or even more, and much narrowed or 

 even stalked at the base ; the upper ones often rounded at the base. Elowers 

 numerous, pm-ple in the British variety, forming a handsome corymb at the 

 tojD of the stem. Sepals 5, short and pointed. Petals more than tvnce as 

 long. Stamens 10, rather shorter than the petals. 



On the borders of fields, hedge-banks, and bushy places, in northern and 

 central Europe and Russian Asia, chiefly confined to hiUy districts in the 

 more southern portion of its area. Occurs in most of the British counties, 

 but has beeu so long cultivated Lu cottage gardens, and is so tenacious of 

 Hfe, that it is difiicult to say how fer it is really indigenous. Fl. summer, 

 rather late, 



3. English Sedum. Sedum anglicum, Huds. 



(Eng. Bot. t. 171.) 



A small perennial, seldom more than 3 inches high, and quite glabrous in 

 all its parts ; the stems decumbent and much branched at the base, with 

 short, thick, almost globular leaves, crowded on the short barren branches, 

 more loosely scattered and occasionally opposite on the flowering ones 

 Flowers white, occasionally tinged with pink, in a short, irregular cyme. 

 Sepals short and green. Petals more than twice as long, lanceolate, and 

 more or less poiat«d. 



In rocky or stony places, usually not far fi-om the sea, in western Europe, 

 from Portugal to southern Norway, ascending also high into the mountains of 

 tlie south-west. Abundant along the western coast of Scotland, in Wales, 

 and in Ireland, and appears also occasionally, but rarely, on the eastern 

 coasts of England. Fl. summer. 



4. Thick-leaved Sedum. Sedum dassrphyllum, Linn. 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 656.) 



Very nearly allied to the Unglish S., but usually rather smaller, of a glau- 

 cous green, and the flowering summits more or less viscid, \vith short, glan- 

 dular hau's ; the leaves thicker, and more fi-equently opposite ; the cymes of 

 flowers more compact, of a dead white tinged with rose-colour ; and the 

 petals broader and not so pointed. 



Much more widely spread on rocks and walls, in western, central, and 

 southern Europe, than the English S., but does not extend eastward to the 

 Russian territory, nor northward into northern Germany. In Britain, 

 only indicated in a few locahties in southern England, with some doubt as 

 to its being really indigenous. Fl. summer, , 



