Sedum album. White-flowered Stonecrop. 



SEDUM Linmei Gen. PL Decandria Pentagynia. 



Cal. 5 fidus. Cor. 5-petala. Squamce nectariferas 5, ad bafin germinis. Caps. 5. 

 Rail Syn. Gen. 17. Herbje multisiliqu^ seu corniculat^e. 



SEDUM album foliis oblongls obtufis teretiufculis feffilibus patentibus, cyma ramofa. Linn. Sjfi. 



Vegetab. p. 359. Sp. PI. p. 619. Fl. Suede. 153. 

 SEDUM caule glabro, foliis teretibus ; umbellis ramofis ; floribus petiolatis. Haller hifi. heh. n. 959. 



SEDUM album. Scopoti Fl. Cam. p. 324. 



SEDUM minus teretifolium album. Bauhin. p. 283. 



SEDUM minus officinarum. Gerard emac. 512. 



VERMICULARIS five craffula minor vulgaris. Parkin/on 734. Raii Syn. 271. Hud/on Fl. Angl. p. 



171. Oeder. FL Dan. Icon. 66. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa. J ROOT perennial and fibrous. 



i 



CAULES flexuofe fuper muros repent, dein eriguntur, f STALKS creep on the walls in a crooked form, then 



triunciales circiter, foliofi, rubri. | grow upright, about three inches high, leafy, 



$ and red. 



FOLIA feffilia, oblonga et fere cylindracea, obtufa, non 1 LExAVES feffile, oblong and almoft cylindrical, obtufe, 



admodum conferta, patentia, carnofa, glabra, y but thinly placed on the ftalk, fpreading, 



faepius rubicunda. | flemy, fmooth, and generally of a reddifh colour. 



INFLORESCENTIA : Flores petiolati, in Cymam ra- ? INFLORESCENCE : _ Flowers minding on foot-ftalks, 



mofam confertam difpoiiti. | and difpofed in a thick branched Cyma. 



: ** 



CALYX: Perianthium pentaphyllum, foliolis brevi- t CALYX: a Perianthium of five leaves, which are 



bus, obtufis, Jig. 1. I fhort and obtufe, fig. 1. 



1 



COROLLA: Petal a quinque alba, acuminata, linea | COROLLA: five white Petals, acuminated and gene- 



longitudinali rubra faepius notata, Jig. 2. y rally marked with a longitudinal red ftreak, 



I fii- 2. 



NECTARIUM glandula minima fquamiformis ad bafin ¥ NECTARY a very minute fquamiform gland at thebafe 



fmguli Germinis. fig. 6. I of each of the Germina, fig. 6. 



STAMINA: Filament a decern alba, fig. 2, 3; An- % STAMINA: ten white Filaments, fig. 2, 3; An- 

 thers rubras. | ther^e deep red. 



% 



PISTILLUM : Germina quinque, in Stylos totidem % PISTILLUM : five Germina, terminating in fo many 



acuminates definentia ; Stigmata fimplicia, | acuminated Styles ; the Stigmata fimple, 



fig- 4, 5- I fig- 4, 5- 



PERICARPIUM : Capsulje quinque minimae acumi- | SEED-VESSEL: five fmall acuminated Capsules, 



natae introrfum dehifcentes, fig. 7. % opening inwardly, fig. 7. 



SEMINi\ parva, oblonga,v%. 8. | SEEDS fmall and oblong, /3-. 8. 



The Sedum album may be confidered with us as rather a fcarce plant ; it is found here and there on the 



Walls about Town, particularly on the Chapel-wall in Kentj/h-Fown, where it has grown for many years ; alfo 



mould: in fuch a fituation it will grow, flouriih, and propagate itfelf very faft. 



It has been called album, from the colour of its flowers, which generally however have a tinge of red in them. It 

 flowers in July. The round and oblong fhape of its leaves readily difringuifhes it from our other Stonecrops. 



Haller informs us that it pofiefles all the virtues of the large Houfeleek, and that he hasufed the juice of 

 it in uterine haemorrhages, but does not inform us with what fuccefs. By way of cataplafm it is applied to the 

 piles when in a painful ftate, and is faid to have fometimes been made the fame ufe of in cancers with fuccefs. 

 By forne it is eaten as a pickle. 



