DODECAND.— DODECAGYNIA. Sempervivum. 351 



S. majus. Rail Sijn. 269. Ger, Em. 510. f. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 



461./. Camer. Epit. 854./. 

 Sedum n. 949. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 409. 

 S. majus. Fuchs. Hist. 32. f. Ic.lT.f. 



On walls and cottage roofs, frequent. 



Perennial. July. 



Root fibrous, crowned with several rosaceous tufts of numerous, 

 oblong, acute, keeled, fringed, extremely succulent leaves. 

 Stem from the centre of one of those tufts, a foot high, erect, 

 round, downy, clothed with several, more narrow, sessile, alter- 

 nate leaves, and terminating in a sort of many-flowered cyme, 

 with spiked branches. Fl. large, pale rose-coloured, without 

 scent. Segments of the calyx 12 or more, with a similar num- 

 ber of petals, stamens and pistils. 



The leaves are cooling, when applied externally, and frequently re- 

 newed. They possess moreover an astringent property, which 

 is rather salutary in many cases. The Dispensatory describes 

 a beautiful white highly volatile coagulum, formed of the fil- 

 trated juice of these leaves, with an equal quantity of rectified 

 spirit of wine. 



