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§ 2. Leaves narrow and thick, barely flattish or terete : low or creeping plants. 



S. d.cre. Mossy S., or Wall-Pepper. Cult, from Eu., for edgings and 

 rock-work, running wild in some places : a moss-like little plant, forming mats 

 on the ground, yellowish-green, with very succulent and thick ovate small and 

 crowded leaves, and yellow flowers in summer, theirparts in fives. 



S. puloh611um. Beautiful S. Wild S. W. on rocks ; also cult, in 

 gardens, &c. ; spreading and rooting stems 4' -12' long; leaves crowded, terete, 

 linear-thread-shaped ; flowers rose-purple, crowded on the upper side of the 4 

 or 5 spreading branches of the cyme, their parts mostly in fours, while those of 

 the central or earliest flower are in fives : in summer. 



S. carneum, varieg&tum. Cult, of late for borders, &c., of unknown 

 origin ; has creeping stems, and the small leaves mostly opposite, sometimes in 

 threes, linear, flattish, acute, very pale green, and white-edged : flowers not yet 

 seen. 



4. TILIi.3iA. (Named for an Italian botanist, TVffi.) Fl. all summer. ® 

 T. simplex, is a minute plant of muddy river-banks along the coast, 

 spreading and rooting, only l'-2' high, with linear-oblong opposite leaves, and 

 solitary inconspicuous white flowers sessile in their axils. 



6. CBASSUIiA. ( So named from the incrassated leaves. ) House-plants, 

 occasionally cult., from Cape of Good Hope. ^ 



C. arbor^sceus. Fleshy shrub, with glaucous roundish-obovate leaves 

 (2' long) tapering to a narrow base, and dotted on the upper face ; the flowers 

 rather large and rose-colored. 



C. lactea, has greener and narrower-obovate leaves, connate at the base in 

 pairs, and a panicle of smaller white flowers. 



C. falc&ta, has slightly woody stems, oblong and rather falcate or curved 

 leaves connate at base, 3' -4' long, powdery-glaucous, and a compound cyme of 

 many red sweet-scented flowers, the petals with erect claws partly united be- 

 low, and spreading abruptly above ; so that the plant has been placed under 

 the next genus, and named Eochea falcata. 



6. BOCHEA. (Named for a Swiss physician, Laroche.) Half-shrubby 

 succulent house-plants of the Cape of Good Hope. y. 



B. cocclnea. Stems l°-2° high, thickly beset with the oblong-ovate 

 (1' long) leaves up to the terminal and umbel-like sessile cluster of handsome 

 flowers ; tube of the scarlet-red corolla 1' long. 



7. COTYIiiiDOlJ'. (From Greek word for a shallow cup.) House-plants, 

 not common, y. 



C. orbiculd/ta. Half-shmbby succulent plant, from Cape of Good Hope, 

 with opposite white-powdery or glaucous wedge-obovate leaves (2' -4' long), 

 and a cluster of showy red flowers (nearly K long) raised on a slender naked 

 petiole, the cylindraceous tube of the coroll^^ liSnger than the recurved lobes. 



C. (or Bch6veria) COCcfnea, from Mfecico, is shrubby at base, with 

 the wedge-obovate acute leaves in rosettes, and alternate and scattered on tho 

 flowering stems ; flowers in a leafy spike, the 5-parted corolla not longer than 

 the spreading calyx, 5-angled at base, red outside, yellow within. 



8. BRYOPHTLIiUM. (Name of Greek words for sprout or bud and 

 leaf.) y 



B. ealyclnum. A scarcely shrubby succulent plant, originally from 

 tropical Africa, cult, in hoixses, &c., with opposite petioled leaves, 3 or 5 pinnate 

 leaflets, or the upper of single leaflets, and an open panicle of large and rather 

 handsome hanging green flowers tinged with purple : the calyx is oblong and 

 bladdery ; out of it the tubular corolla at length projects, and has 4 slightly 

 spreading acute lobes ; the leaflets oval, 2-3 inches long, crenate ; when laid on 

 the soil, or kept in a moist place, they root and bud at the notches, and pro- 

 duce little plants. The name refers to the propagation of the plant in this way. 



