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perennial, some of them being not particularly distinct, but var. corsicwm 
has yellow flowers; the vars. pachyphyllum, preruptorum, recur- 
vum, rigidum, and serotinum have greenish flowers, with small points 
of difference between themselves. The var. hamatodes has erect, deep 
purple stems over 2 feet high, and opposite purplish leaves 5 inches 
long and 3 inches broad, coarsely toothed ; whitish red-tipped flowers in 
panicled cymes. 
S. REFLEXUM (turned back). Stone Orpine. Stems trailing. Leaves” 
cylindric with awl-shaped tips, spreading and reflexed, in about six series, 
crowded. Flowers bright yellow; July and August. Native perennial. . 
There is a smaller variety (albescens) with glaucous leaves, and pale. #4 
yellow flowers; the leaves of the flowering stem differing from the type 
in not being reflexed. In the var. cristatum the stems are flattened out 
to a great extent, so that at their summit they are several inches broad. 
S. ROSEUM (rosy). Rose-root.  Rootstock woody, thick and 
S. SARMENTOSUM (twiggy). Stems 4 to 6 inches high, pinkish, 
branched. Leaves almost cylindric, pointed at tip and slightly humped 
at base; crowded. Flowers numerous, bright yellow, }-inch in diam., 
combined in a flat-topped umbellate cyme. Native of China. Green- 
house perennial. Plate 98s, 
S. Steso.pmi (Siebold’s). Stems branched, 9 inches; branches erect, 
purplish. Leaves nearly round or rounded wedge-shaped, bluish green 
with pinkish margins ; in whorls of three. Flowers pink, in umbellate 
cymes; August. Plate 98a. There is a variety with yellow variegation. 
Greenhouse perennial. i 
S. SPECTABILE (worthy of notice). Stems 1} to 2 feet high. Leaves 
oval or spoon-shaped, slightly toothed, opposite or in whorls of three or 
four. Flowers pink, 4-inch in diam., in umbellate cymes; August to 
October. Hardy Perennial ; native of Japan. Plate 97. 
S. TELEPHIUM (springing up). Common Orpine, or Live Long. Root- 
stock short and stout; stems from 6 inches to 2 feet high, sometimes 
spotted with red. Leaves as much as 3 inches long, oblong or oval, bluntly 
toothed. Flowers one-third of an inch across, pink, white, or white . 
spotted with pink, in dense corymbose cymes; J uly and August. Native 
perennial. There are a number of varieties of thi 
ibceics The natural habitat of most species of Sedwm is upon — 
or ainong rocks, stony banks, old walls, and similar dry 
