184 CRASSULACB^. [Sedum. 



I. Sedum, Linn. Orpine. Stonecrop. 



" Calyx in 4^6 deep segments, often resembling the leaves. 

 Petals 4 — 6, distinct, patent. Stamens 8 — 12. Follicles many- 

 seeded, each with an entire or emarginate scale at its base." — 

 Br. Fl. 



* Root thick. Leaves flat. 



1. S. Telephium, L. Orpine Livelong'. Leaves ovate-oblong 

 coarsely serrate plane, corymbs leafy, stem erect. Sm. E. Fl. ii. 

 p. 313. Br. Fl. p. Ii7. Lindl. Syn. -p. &i. £. B. xix. t. 1319. 

 Cart. Fl. Lond. i. fasc. 3, t. 25. 



In woods, thickets, borders of fields, along hedges, and rough, stony, bushy 

 places ; rave. Fl. July — September. 2^. 



E. Med. — Near Ashey, very sparingly. 



W. Med. — Plentifully in a moist field and the surrounding hedges close by 

 Pound Green, between it and Sheepwash farm, Freshwater. 



Herb quite smooth and extremely succulent, drying with the greatest difficulty. 

 Root of numerous, clustered, soft, white, fleshy, ovale and pointed tubers, ending 

 in long fibres. Stems 1 — -2 feet high, erect, ascending or procumbent below, 

 round, solid, shining, green and purple on opposite sides, simple and leafy. 

 Leaves scattered, plane or a little concave, sessile, spreading below, often nearly 

 erect above, 1 or 2 inches in length, *oblongo-ovate, sharply but unequally dentato- 

 serrate, bright green or often purplish on the upper side, glaucous beneath with a 

 strongly keeled rib, very smooth, thick and shining ; entire and somewhat wedge- 

 shaped towards the base. Flowers crowded, dark rose-red, not expanding until 

 long after the buds appear fully formed, which is perhaps one reason for its popu- 

 lar name of Livelong ; in dense, compound, hemispherical, terminal and axillary 

 tufts, the latter on long naked stalks, altogether forming an oblong leafy corymb 

 bracteated under some of the principal subdivisions. Sepals lanceolate-acute, not 

 coloured. Petals ovato-lanceolate, slightly keeled, much longer than the calyx, 

 acute. Stamens vi\th reA anthers, 5 of the Jilaments adnate in their lower part 

 with the petals, those opposite the sepals free. Germen oblong. Styles short, 

 nearly erect. At the base of each germen and that of the petals, but between the 

 two, are as many flat, yellow, stnated glands, of a long square shape, nectariferous 

 at their summits. The plant varies in its leaves and blossoms, the latter being 

 sometimes white (Fl. Dan.), and the former opposite and nearly entire. The 

 herbage is quite devoid of acrimony. 



** Root small. Leaves terete, semicylindrical or gibbous, 

 ■f Flowers white or reddish. 



t2. S. album, L. White Stonecrop. " Leaves scattered oblong- 

 cylindrical obtuse spreading, cyme much branched glabrous, 

 petals lanceolate."— 5r. Fl. p. 148. E. B. t. 1578. 



In rocky stony plaees, on walls and roofs of houses ; a very rare and doubt- 

 fully native species in this island. Fl. July, August. If.. 



W.Med. — On the thatch and tiling of two cottages at Yarmouth, plentiful 

 in 1838, but the thatch has been since removed and the plant partially de- 

 stroyed. [Abundantly on the tiled roof of a cottage at Carisbrooke, on the road 

 to and very near Newport, 1854, Dr. Bell-Salter. — Edrs.] 



Herb 6 or 8 inches high, growing in dense tufts. Stems branching at the 



