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2. Cotyledon. — Leaves scattered ; sepals, petals, and carpels 

 5 each ; petals united; stamens lo. 



3. Sedum. — Sepals, petals and earpels 4 — 6 each ; petals free ; 

 stamens 8 — 12. 



*4. Sempervi'vum. — Leaves scattered ; sepals, petals, and carpels 

 6 — 20; sfajiieiis 12 — 40. 





coTVL^DO>r uMEiLicns-vr^:NERif; 

 (Jl'all J\ji>,ia;'i-/). 



!56nuM k/iseum {Ri^sc-7-oct). 



I. TiLL.-y.A. — Small herbs ; leaves opposite, entire ; /lowers 

 minute ; sepals, and sometimes the petals, united below ; sepals, 

 petals, statu ens and carpels, 3 — 5 each ; follicles 2 or more seeded. 

 (Named after iMichael Angelo Tilli, an Italian botanist.) 



I. T. muscosa (Mossy Tillrea). — A minute, tufted, prostrate 

 smooth plant with small, opposite, oblong, blunt leaves and solitary, 

 subsessile, 3-merous, or rarely 4-merous, greenish white ploiuers, 

 tipped with red. — On sandy heaths in the south and east, It has 



