84. CRASSULACER. 515 
the other. This is an unfortunate division and naming; some of 
the best garden varieties of the Red Currant corresponding more 
closely with his character of sylvestre, than they do with the 
character given for his sativum; for instance, by their pubescent 
leaves and coloured calyx, with less pendulous racemes while in 
flower. I do not believe Ribes rubrum really native in the southern 
counties, although it often springs from seeds scattered by birds. 
By an unlucky mistake in Eng. Bot. pages 445, a remark of 
mine about the shape of the young fruit in the half-wild Goose- 
berry, has been misplaced to the Red Currant sub-species sylvestre. 
Ribes (rubrum) spicatum, Robson. 
Provinces - 10-16. Extinct in Yorkshire. Skye, 1868. 
Syn. 404. Said to have been found by Professor Lawson and 
My. Fox “in abundance, in Skye, in 1868.” Apparently a form 
of rubrum with the rachis still less developed (or simply less 
pendulous) than in the petrewm of Smith. While the garden 
varieties are more or less divergent from typical rubrum sylvestre 
in one direction, the wild petreum and spicatum of English botanists 
are divergences from it in the contrary direction. 
84. CRASSULACEE. 
Sedum (Telephium) Fabaria, Koch. 
Provinces - 5-7-1218. Salop. Carn. Westm. Kirke. 
Syn. 409. <A specimen from Lydhole, Salop, collected by Mr. 
Hinds, has leaves still narrower and more cuneate downwards than 
are those of the Westmoreland plant represented in English 
Botany, third edition. But between the Salop specimen and the 
quite opposite extreme drawn for purpurascens, in the same work, 
come too many intermediate forms to allow of any certainty that 
the extremes have been well designated “ sub-species.” In Surrey, 
plants brought from dry sterile spots into garden ground, acquired 
considerably wider leaves than they produced in their wild or 
quasi-wild condition. The distribution set forth for Telephium, 
on page 178, may be held to represent that of the other segregate 
or “ sub-species ” purpurascens. 
Sedum dasyphyllum, Linn. 
Provinces 12345-78910-12-14. 
Alien. Cyb. i. 898. Only on walls? 
Sedum album, Linn. 
Provinces 1 to 15; with exception of 13. 
Alien. Cyb. i. 399. iii. 484. This has been held native at Pen- 
pole Rocks, below Bristol. Some years ago Mr. Flower shewed 
me the locality, a cavity from which stone might have been 
quarried formerly, and which was evidently then used as a 
receptacle for -garden refuse from the adjacent grounds of a 
