126 DECANDRTA PENTAGYNTA. Seclum. 



1319. C. 3. 25. Crassula sive Faba inversa. G. 

 E. 518. 



Borders of fields, hedges, bushy places. * Headington Wick Copse. 



Shotover Hill. Sb. (Bagley Wood. Bx.) 

 Per. Juli/. 



Plant fleshy. Root of tapering knobs, fleshy. Stems one or two 

 f., erect, simple, leafy, round, mostly spotted with pm*ple. Ls. irre- 

 gularly scattered, stalkless, egg-shaped, fleshy, somewhat glau- 

 cous, rib thick, coloured, gi^adually lost in the summit of the Is. 

 Fl.-tuft close, crimson, or purple ; sometimes white. Pet. 

 sharp. Anth. and stiym. more deeply coloured. 

 Norfolk rustics sometimes hang up this plant, which grows even 

 when torn from the soil : pretending to judge by the plant's vigour, 

 of the health of an absent friend. Decoction oils, in milk, power- 

 fully diuretic. 



Ornamental plant. 



* * Leaves swollen, or somewhat cylindrical. 



S. dasypJiyllum. Thick-leaved JVhite Stonecrop. Leaves 

 egg-shaped, blunt, fleshy, stalkless ; the lower ones 

 opposite. Stems feeble. Panicles glutinous. E. B. 

 Q5Q. C. 3. 26. 



Walls. 



Per. June. 



Root of small white fibres. Stems thread-like, weak, trailing. PI. 

 branching, panicled, clammy, downy. Ls. except those of the 

 panicled stalk, closely tiled, very thick and fleshy. PI. -panicle 

 of few Jl. Pet. white, keel purple. Anth. dark-red. Small, 

 pretty plant, fleshy. 



S. ac7'e. Biting Stonecrop. Wall Pepper. Leaves 

 alternate, nearly egg-shaped, thick, swollen ; spurred 

 at the base. Cyme of three smooth branches, leafy. 

 E. B. 839. C. 1. 32. Vermicularis, sive Illecebra 

 minor acris. G. E. 517. 



Walls, roofs, dry, sandy ground. 

 Per. June. 



Stems tufted, weak. Roots small, fibrous. Branches upright. 

 Ls. gi'ass-gi'een, tiled, fleshy, fixed to the stem by the inner or 

 upper surface, a little above their base. Fl.-cymes terminal, 

 three -cleft, when luxuriant. Cal. segm. bluntish. Cor. golden- 

 yellow. Pet. egg-shaped, acute. Cups, pointed, smooth. 

 A brilliant little flower. Plant acrid, biting to the taste. Said, 

 to be of gi'eat eflicacy in scurvy, in decoction, or outwardly 

 applied. See Rail Syn. The juice emetic. G. E. The plant will 

 retain life, for some weeks, suspended in the air by the root. An 

 oz. of the plant, boiled in twelve oz. of ale, taken in four doses, 

 found useful in dropsy. Lightf. 



