206 THE FLORA. 
Analysis of the Genera, 
§ Pistils (follicles) entirely distinct and separate....2 
§ Pistils 4 or 5, united into a 4 or 5-celled capsule... .4 
2 Stamens twice as many as the pistils, petals, or sepals....8 
2 Stamens as many (3 or 4) as the pistils, &c. Herb 1-3’ high. 7, Trrum’a, 
8 Flowers 5 (rarely 4)-parted. Stamens 10 or 8. Stone-crop. Sr’/pum. 1 
8 Flowers 12 (or 6-20)-parted. Stamens 12-40. Houseleek. SEMPERVI/VUM. 
4 © Herb 2-4’ high, fleshy, with 4-parted flowers. 8S. DiaMor’PHA, 
4 % Herb 10-16’ high, not fleshy, with 5-parted flowers. ¢. PENTHo’RUM. 
Fig. 472, A flowering branch of Sedum acre. Fig. 478. A flower of 8. acre, 
natural size. Fig. 474. A flower (12-parted, symmetrical, regular) of Semper- 
vlgum (Houseleek). 
1. SE’DUM. Stone-crop. Orpine. 
Sepals and petals 5, sometimes 4, distinct. Stamens 10 or 
8. Pods 5, sometimes 4, distinct, many-seeded, with an 
entire scale at the base of each.—Mostly 2% herbs, with 
5-parted flowers in cymes, or in one-sided clusters. 
1 Flowers white, or purplish, or rose-colored....2 
1 S. a/cre. Iceland Moss. Fils. yellow. Plant in low tufts. Gardens. 
2 Leaves scattered, 1-3’ long....8-5. (Figs. 472, 473.) 
2 8.terna’tum. Stone-crop. Leaves in whorls of 3’s. Flowers 
white, in a 3-spiked cyme. 
8 S.telephioi’des. Valse O. Leaves lanceolate or obovate, nearly entire. M.S. 
48. Tele’phium. Cuinmon O. Leaves oval, serrate, obtuse. Flowers purplish. 
5S. pulchel’lum, Handsome O. Lys. linear. Fls. in an umbel of spikes, purp. 
Orpen LXI. SAXIFRAGACEA. Saxifrages. 
Herbs or shrubs with the pistils fewer than the sepals of the flower; 
the petals as many as the calys sepals (4 or 5), and together with the 
