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



S._ &cre. Mossy S., or Waix-Pepper. Cult, from Eu., for edgings and 

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

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

 ci-owdeil leaves, and yellow flowers in smimier, their parts in fives. 



S. pulchellum. 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 "WS^urple, 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. cimeum, variegcltum. 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 whito^edged : flowers not yet 

 seen. 



4. TILIi^A. (Named for an Italian botanist, TiV^i".) Fl. all sttmmcr. ® 



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

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

 solitary inconspicuous white flowers sessile in their axils. 



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

 occasionally cult., from Cape of Good Hope. 2/ 



C. arbor^scens. Fleshy shrub, with glaucous roundisli-obovate leaves 

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

 rather large and rose-colored. 



C. 14ctea, has greener and narrower-obovate leaves, cotinate at the base in 

 pairs,' and a panicle of smaller white flowers. 



C. falckta, has slightly woody stems, oblong and rather falcate or curved 

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

 many red sweet-scented flowers, the petals with erec£ claws partly united bo^ 

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

 the next genus, and named E.ocheafalca.ta. 



6. ROCHSA. (Named for, a Swiss, physician, Laroche.) Half-siirubby 

 succulent house-plants of the Cape of Good Hope, "il 



R. COCCiaea. Stems l°-2° high, thickly beset with the oblong-ovato 

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

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



7. COTYLEDOlf. (From Greek word for a sMlow cup.) House-plants, 

 not common, y. 



C. orbicul&ta. Half-shrubby succulent plant, from Cape of Good Hope, 

 with opposite White-powdery or glaucous wedge-obovato leaves (2' -4' long), 

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

 petiole, the cylindraeeous tube of the corolla longer than the recurved Ipbes. 



C. (or Echeveria) COCeinea, from Mexico, is shrubby at base, v/ith 

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

 flowering stems ; flowers in a leafy spike, the 5-partod Corolla not longer than 

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



8. BRTOPHlfLLUM. (Name of Greek words for sprout or hud and 

 leaf.) % .. . f 



B.. ealyeinuin. A scarcely shriibby succulent , plant, originally from 

 tropical ■Africa, cult, in houses, &c., with opposite pctioled loaves, a Or 5 pinnate 

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

 handsome hafiging green' flowers tinged with purple : the calyx is olilong and 

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

 spreading acute lobes ; the leaflets oval, 2-3 inches long, cronato j 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. 



