SedumAcre. Common yellow Stonecrop, 



or Wall-Pepper. 



SEDUM. Lininei Gen. PL Decandria Pentagynia. 



Rati Synopjis Gen. ij. Herbje multisiliqu;e seu corniculatje. 



SEDUM acre foliis fubovatis, adnato-feffilibus, gibbis, ere&iufculis, altemis; cyma trifida. Lin. Sy/l. Vegetab. 

 p. 3$<). Fl. Sueck. p. 153. 



SEDUM foliis conicis confertis, caulibus ramofis, fummis trifidis. Hatter, hiji. v. i.n. $66. 



SEMPER VI VUM minus vermiculatum acre. Bauhin. pin. 283. 



VERMICULARIS feu Illecebra minor acris. Ger.emac. 517. 



JLLECEBRA minor feu Sedum tertium Diofcoridis. Parkin/on 735. Raii Synop. 270. Hud/on. Pl.Angl.p. 171. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa. % ROOT perennial, and fibrous. 



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CAULES numerofi, caefpitofi, ramofiffimi, palmares, ad | STALKS numerous, growing in tufts, very much 



bafin repentes, dein ere&i, teretes, foliofimmi. ? branched, three inches high, creeping at their 



I bafe, but afterwards growing upright, round, 



I and very leafy. 



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FOLIA alterna, conferta, imbricata, fuberecla, adnato- | LEAVES alternate, growing very thick together, and 



feffilia, ovata, obtufa, brevia, carnofa, margine % laying one over another, nearly upright, grow- 



paululum comprefla, glabra, Japore acri. fig. 1. | ing to the {talk, oval, blunt, ihort, flefhy, flat- 



I tened a little at the edges, fmooth, and of a 



I very biting tafie, fig. 1. 



FLORES feffiles, lutei, in Cymas fubtrifidas difpofiti. % FLOWERS feffile, yellow, growing in Cymse fome- 



f what trifid. 



t 

 CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, perfrftens, f CALYX: a Perianthium divided into five fegments, 



laciniis craffis obtufiufculis, fig. 2. | and continuing, the fegments thick and 



y bluntiih, fig. 2. 



t 

 COROLLA: Petala quinque lanceolato-acuminata, | COROLLA: compofed of five long-pointed Petals 

 plana, patentia, Calyce duplo longiora, fig. 3. % which are flat, fpreading, and twice the length 



I of the Calyx, fig. 3. 



% 

 NECTARIUM : Squamula minima, alba, ad bafin, % NECTARY : a very minute fcale or gland placed ex- 



iinguli germinis extrorfum pofita,^-. 7. | ternally at the bottom of each Germen,fig. 7. 



t 

 STAMINA: Filamenta decern fubulata, longitudine t STAMINA: ten Filaments, tapering, the length of 



Corollas. Anthers flav as, fig. 4. I the Corolla, the Anthers yellow, fig. 4. 



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PISTILLUM: Germina quinque oblonga, flava, in | PISTILLUM : five Germina, oblong, yellow, termi- 

 Stylos acuminatos defmentia. Stigmata | nating in five long-pointed Styles. The Stig- 



fimplicia, fig. 6. ¥ mat a fimple,^. 6. 



PERICARPIUM : Capsule quinque patentes, acumi- ^ SEED-VESSEL : five Capsules, fpreading, long- 

 natse, compreflae, longitudinaliter futura intror- | pointed, flat, opening internally by a longitu- 



fum dehifcentes, fig. 8. | dinal future, fig. 8. 



SEMINA minima, ovata, rufa, fig. 9. t SEEDS very minute, oval, and reddifh brown, fig. 9. 



According to the account which fome medical Writers give of this Plant it appears to pofTefs considerable virtues, 

 while others, from the durability of its acrimony, and the violence of its operation, have thought it fcarce fafe to be 

 adminiftered. Chewed in the mouth it has a very hot and biting tafte, whence its name of Wall-Pepper. Applied to 

 the fkin it excoriates and exulcerates it, taken internally it proves emetic and diuretic. 



The Difeafes in which it has been chiefly recommended are the Scurvy and Dropfy, in both of which, according 

 to Linnaeus, it is an excellent remedy; and fome inflances are brought of the efficacy of its juice in Cancers, but 

 thefe perhaps, ftand in need of farther confirmation. 



It grows very common on Houfes, Walls, and gravelly Banks, and flowers in June ; it continues but a fhort time 

 in bloflbm, but while it lafts its lively yellow colour gives a very pretty appearance to thofe Houfes and Walls which 

 are covered with it. 



