Sedwm] crassulaceje. 186 



base, round, reddish, brittle, smooth and succulent. Leaves scattered on the 

 flowerinpf stems, on the barren shoots somewhat crowded, chiefly on the upper 

 part in both, linear-oblonsr, very obtuse, compressed, spreading and spurless, 

 smooth and succulent. Flowers in dense cymose panicles, of 3 principal branches 

 numerously subdivided at their summits. Ca(ya;-segments ovate, very blunt, 

 dashed with reddish brown. Petals white, three limes the length of the calyx, lan- 

 ceolate, rather obtuse, each with a streak of light purple at the back towards the 

 base, often suffused with a faint tinge of the same colour all over. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments white : anthers red. Germens with tapering styles, hypogynovs glands 

 yellow. 



3. S. anglicum, Huds. White English Stonecrop. " Leaves 

 mostly alternate ovate gibbous fleshy produced at the base, cymes 

 glabrous few-flowered, petals very sharp at the point " — Br. Fl. 

 p. 148. E. B. t. 171. 



On dry sandy ground, barren pastures, rocks, banks and cliffs near the sea ; in 

 several places abundantly, i^. June, July. 2^. 



E. Med. — On the Dover, Byde. Abundant on St. Helen's spit. SanJown 

 bay. 



W. Med. — Between St. Catherine's Point and Blackgang chine. S. side of 

 Brixton down, Dr. Pulleney in ' Hampshire Repository,' i. p. 120. 



Root small, annual, fibrous, sending forth many weak filiform stems, which are 

 procumbent at the base, round, smooth and usually reddish, 2 or 3 inches hi'j;h, 

 bare of leaves below. Leaves alternate or partly opposite, sessile, ovate, fleshy, 

 very convex on the back and plane above, with a very small point or angle at the 

 base below the point of insertion with the stalk, scarcely to be called a spur. 

 Cyme terminal, very simple, of two branches, each bearing from 2 — 4 flowers, 

 with another nearly in the fork of the branches. Flowers reddish white, star-like, 

 very ornamental to our dry sandy shores. Sepals ovate, bluntish, quite smooth, 

 not half the length of the petals. Petals lanceolate, acute and keeled beneath. 

 Filaments white ; anthers brownish purple. Germens tapering, their points erect, 

 spreading, or a little recurved, tinged with rose-colour, with a brown somewhat 

 heart-shaped scale at the base of each. 



t ? 4. S. dasyphyllum, L. Thick - leaved White Stonecrop. 

 Leaves ovato-globose mostly opposite, stems reclining below, 

 panicle few-flowered viscid. Sm. E. Fl. ii. p. 316. Br. Fl. p. 

 148. Lindl. Syn. p. 64. E. B. t. 656. Curt. Fl. Lond. fasc. 3, 

 t. 25. 



On rocks, walls and roofs ; rare, and possibly only naturalized. Fl. June, 

 July. U. 



E. Med. — On the roof of the South porch of Brading church, and walls adjoin- 

 ing ; plentifully in 1838, but since diminished by repairs. On the tiled coping of 

 a wall at the S. end of Brading, by the house of a baker of the name of Riddick, 

 Miss Lucas, who first pointed out this species to me as an Isle-of-Wight plant. 

 On the wall before the dwelling-house at Alverston mill, and on the roofs and sheds 

 of the outhouses adjoining, in very great abundance in 1841. 



An elegant species, known at once by its very thick, egg-shaped, almost globular 

 leaves, which are extremely juicy, and attached to the stem by a point barely visi- 

 ble to the naked eye, hence falling away upon a slight touch, which, with the 

 extreme bvittleness of every part of the plant, makes it difficult to collect large 

 and perfect specimens. 



Flowers white. Petals elegantly streaked on the back with rose-colour, exteud- 

 ing along the keeled centre, where there is a row of red and stalked glands like 

 "those olothintc the calyx and pedicels. Scale at the liiise of e;ich germen heart- 

 shaped, yellow. 



1 find many flowers with 6 stamens and 12 petals in my wild specimens. 



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