Crassulacee—Crassula. 189 
glabrous, or ciliate. Nearly all of the species, numbering 150, 
are from South Africa, a few from the Himalayas. There are 
no hardy species in cultivation, but some of them are employed 
for bedding out in Summer. The name is the diminutive of 
erassus, thick or fleshy. 
1. C. coccinea (fig. 101), syn. 
Kalosdnthes coccinea.—This is the 
only species in general cultivation. 
It grows about 2 feet high, and 
produces large clusters of crimson, 
scarlet, rose or pink flowers, accord- 
ing to the varieties. 
2. SEDTM. 
Succulent usually prostrate herbs 
with alternate opposite or whorled 
leaves, seldom in rosettes. Parts of 
the flower in fives or fours; stamens 
twice as many as petals. 120 species, 
chiefly from the temperate and frigid 
zones of the north. Name from 
sedeo, to sit, referring to the pro- 
strate habit of most species on rocks 
and stones. 
1. S. dere. Biting Stonecrop, 
Wall Pepper, or Poor Man’s Pepper. 
—This indigenous trailing yellow- 
flowered species is perhaps the com- F 
monest in cultivation. It spreads Fig. 101. Crassula coccinea. (4 nat.siz2.) 
so rapidly that it is well suited to 
cover rock-work, &c. It is quite glabrous, with small scale-like 
imbricate leaves and numerous flowers rising only a few inches 
from the ground. 
2. S. reflécum.—Another yellow-flowering species, growing 
from 6 inches to a foot high. Leaves crowded, cylindric, re- 
flexed, about an inch long. Flowers in terminal flat cymes. 
This species spreads very fast, and has become naturalised in 
several parts of Britain. 
3. S. dlbwm.—Flowering-stems erect. Leaves glabrous, 
cylindric, oblong, about 6 lines long. Flowers white. A 
native of North Britain. 
4. 8. Teléphium, syn. S. purpwrewm. Orpine. — Stems 
