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5.""" .S. ddsyplivlliiin (Thick-leaved Stonecrop)- — A small, very 

 glaucous, pink-tinged, slightly viscid, and prostrate species with 

 fleshy, almost globular leaves, and white JJoKvrs, often streaked 

 with pink. — Occurs as an escape on old walls. — Fl. June, July. 

 I^erennial. 



6. S. diiglicuin (English Stonecrop). — A small plant 3 — 4 in. 

 high, with stems prostrate, ascending ; leaves'- small, scattered, 

 crowded, fleshy, spurred at the base beneath, pale green or tinged 

 with red ; flowers star-like, white, spotted with red, in two-forked 

 cymes; /£'/i;7/j- very sharply pointed; antliers\yn^i red. — Rocky and 

 sandy places, especially near the sea. — Fl. June^ — August. Annual. 



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S^DUM XcR^ {Biting Stonecrof). 



*** Leaves nearly cyluidrit : floivers yellow 



7. ^S. acre (Biting Stonecrop, Wall-pepper). — Very like the 

 preceding in habit and growing in similar situations ; but distin- 

 guished by its thicker, more crowded, and intensely acrid lecvues and 

 golden-yellow flowers in 3-cleft cymes. — Wall, rocks, and sandy 

 ground ; couunon. — Fl. June, July. Perennial, 



S.* 5. sexangiildre (Tasteless Yellow .Stonecrop), distin- 

 guished from the precedmg l;y its crowded leaves more dis- 

 tinctly in 6 vertical rows, and by its acute sepals, occurs 

 on old walls, chiefly in Kent, but is not indigenous. — FL July. 

 Perennial. 



9.* S. reflexiim (Recurved Yellow Stonecrop). — Easily distin- 

 guished from any of the preceding by its slender but tough stems, 

 6 — 10 in. high, with spreading, or reflexed, awl-shaped, pointed, 



