320 DECANDRIA— PENTAGYNIA. Sedum. 



S. minus primum, et secundum. CIus. Hist. v. 2. 59./,/. 

 S. minus officinarum. Ger. Em. 512./.,- also 513./ 7. 

 S. minus foemina. Fuchs. Hist. 35./ 

 Sempervivum minus. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 462./. 



On rocks, walls and roofs, not common. 



At Kentish-town and Bromley, Middlesex. Curtis. On rocks above 



Great Malvern, Worcestershire ; Mr. Nash. With. Upon walls 



at Peterborough. Mr. Woodward. Rare in Scotland. Hooker. 

 Perennial. July. 

 Root fibrous, creeping. Stems erect, 4 or 5 inches high, round, 



purplish, leafy. Leaves scattered, light green, often reddish, 



very succulent, barely an inch long, sessile, but slightly attached. 



Fl. numerous, in a smooth compound panicle, white, with a 



reddish calyx and anthers. 

 An elegant plant for rock-work, but it soon passes away unless 



there be some depth of soil, and a supply of moisture. 



8. S. reflexum. Crooked Yellow Stonecrop. 



Leaves awl-shaped, scattered, spurred at the base? the 

 lowermost recurved. Flowers cymose. Segments of the 

 calyx ovate. 



S. reflexum. Linn. Sp.PZ. 6 18. fVilld.v.2.764. Fl. Br. 490. Evgl. 



Bot.v. 10. ^695. Hook. Scot. 141. 

 S. n. 967. Hall. Hist.v.l. 415. 



S. minus luteum ramulis reflexis. Bauh. Pin. 283. Rail Syn. 270. 

 S. minus mas. Fuchs. Hist. 33./ 

 S. minus quartum. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 60./ 

 Aizoon scorpioides. Lob. Ic.377.f. Ger. Em. 5 13./ 

 Crooked Yellow Sengreen. Pet. H. Brit. t. 42. f. 6. 



On walls and thatched roofs abundantly. 



Perennial. July. 



Roots fibrous, thrown out here and there from the recumbent, en- 

 tangled, lower part of the stems, which are a foot high, round, 

 leafy, with several short, densely leafy, barren shoots from the 

 bottom. Leaves thick, of a dull green, often brownish, scarcely 

 glaucous, tapering to a bristly tip ; their base having a short 

 spur below their point of attachment, as in some of the preced- 

 ing ; but that character does not serve for a natural division of 

 the genus. Fl. bright yellow, numerous, in a dense, terminal, 

 more or less level-topped cyme, whose branches and stalks are 

 smooth ; the outermost frequently recurved. Segments of the 

 calyx ovate, bluntly pointed, scarcely half so long as the lanceo- 

 late rather obtuse petals. The lower leaves are often recurved, 

 in consequence of the pendulous posture of the stems or branches, 

 but the specific name seems to have originated from the gene- 

 rally reflexed position of the Jlower-slalks, expressed by the term 

 scorpioides. The number of the several parts of the^ou^er often 



