DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Sedum. 319 



but they are slender and cylindrical, disposed 3 or 4 together in 

 alternate whorls, spreading, so as to form 6 or 7 rows, or angles, 

 on each branch. They are a little acid or astringent, but have 

 no acrimony. The old authors confounded these two species, 

 and even Mr. Hudson, in his second edition, made this a va- 

 riety of the acre. Matthiolus and Dalechamp give ex-cellent 

 figures, which have hitherto escaped observation. The cut of 

 Camerarius, quoted above under S. acre, admirably expresses 

 that plant, though Linnaeus took it for the sexangulare. 



6. S. vUlosiuii. Hairy Stonecrop. 



Leaves alternate, linear, flattened, slightly hairy as well as 

 the flower-stalks. Stem erect. 



S. villosum. Linn. Sp. PI. 620. mild. v. 2. 768. Fl.Br.488. Engl. 



Bot. V. 6. t. 394. Hook. Scot. 140. Fl. Dan. t. 24. 

 S. n. 962. Hall. Hist. V. 1.414. 

 S. palustre subhirsutum purpureum. Bauh. Pin. 285. 

 S. palustre, flore incarnato. Best. Hort. Eijst. cestiv. ord. 13. t. 5. 



/.2. 

 S. purpureum pratense. Bauh. Hist.v.3.p.2.692.f. RaiiSyn.270. 

 S. minus tertium, sive palustre. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 59./. 

 S. minus palustre. Ger. Em. 516. f. 

 Purple Marsh Sengreen. Pet. H. Brit. t. 42. f. 7. 



In wet mountainous pastures, and the clefts of moist rocks, in the 

 North. 



In Westmoreland, Durham, and the north-west part of Yorkshire 

 not unfrequent. More abundant in Scotland. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root small, fibrous. Stem erect, round, leafy, spotted with red, 

 3 to 6 inches high, with a few leafy branches from the bottom. 

 Leaves scattered, flat on the upper side, about half an inch long, 

 often reddish ; the upper ones chiefly downy. Fl. rose-coloured, 

 or white with a red mid-rib to each petal, corymbose, terminal, 

 on downy viscid stalks. Cal. downy. Caps, rough, purplish, 

 pointed. 



7 ' S. album. White Stonecrop. 



Leaves oblong, cylindrical, obtuse, spreading, smooth. Pa- 

 nicle much branched. 



S. album. Linn. Sp. PL 619. Willd.v. 2. 766. FL fir. 489. EngL 

 Bot V. 22. L 1578. Curt. Lond.fasc. \.L3l. Hook. ScoL 140. 

 FL Dan. t. 66. 



S. n. 959. HalLHist.v.\.Al3. 



S. minus teretifolium album. Bauh. Pin. 283. Raii Syn. 271. 



S. minus, folio longiusculo tereti, flore candido. Bauh. Hist. v. 3. 

 p. 2. 690./. 



