Sedum sexangulare. insipid Stonecrop. 



SEIvUM Lin, Gen. PL Decandria Pentagynia, 



Cal. 5 fidus. Cor. 5 petala. Squama nectariferae 5 ad bafin germinis. Caps. c. 



Rail Syn. Gen. 17. Herb^e multisiliquje seu corniculatje. 



SEDUM fexangulare foliis fubovatis adnato feflilibus gibbis erettiufculis fexfariam imbricatis. Lin: 

 SyJl. Vegetab. p. 359. Spec. Plant, p. 620. Fl. Suecic. n 404. 



SEDUM foliis, teretibus, ternatis ; caulibus fimplicibus trifidis. HulUr. hi/I. n. 965. 



SEDUM fexangulare. Scopoli Fl. Cam. n. 558. 



SEMPERVIVUM minus vermiculatum infipidum. Bauhin. pin. 284. 



SEDUM minimum luteum non acre. Bauhin, hift. 3. p. 695. Hud/on FL Angl. ed. 1. p, 172. 



RADIX perennis, fibrofa. 



CAULES bafi repentes, floriferz. ere£ti, tripollicares et 



ultra, teretes, glabri, punctati, inferne nudi, 



rubentes. . 



FOLIA oblonga, carnofa, teretiufcula, obtufa, ere&o- 

 patentia, fexfariam imbricata, prefertim ante 

 florefcentiam, rigidula, adnato-feffiiia, in- 

 ferne rubentia, fuperr.e caulibus faltem flori- 

 fens e fiavo viridia, inlipida. 



CYMA plerumque trifida, floribus in fingulo ramulo | 



tribus ad quinque, feflilibus. y 



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CALYX : Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis | 



obtufis, carnofis, bafi tenuioribus. % 



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COROLLA : Petala quinque, flava, lanceolata, acu- | 



minata, calyce duplolongiora, patentia. Jig. 2. f 



STAMINA : Filament a decern, fubulata, longitu- y 



dine corolla; Anthers fubrotundae, flavef- % 



centes. Jig. 3. 4, : | 



PISTILLUM: Germina quinque, erecta, oblonga, ? 



definentia in Stylos tenuiores ; Stigmata | 



iimplicia.^. 5. g 



ROOT perennial and fibrous. 



STALKS creeping at the bafe, tbofe which produce 

 flowers about three inches or more in height, 

 round, fmooth, dotted, below naked and of 

 a reddifh colour; 



LEAVES oblong, flefhy, roundifh, obtufe upright, 

 but bending a little outward, plactd one .Tver 

 another in fix rows, especially before the 

 bloflbms open, fomewhat rigid, iefule, as if 

 fluck to the ftalk, thoie on the lower part 

 of the item of a reddifh colour, on the upper 

 part yellowifh, at leait on the flowering 

 flalks, infipid. 



CYMA generally divided into three branches, on each 

 of which are placed from three to five flow- 

 ers, without footftalks. 



CALYX: a Perianthium divided into five fegments, 

 which are obtufe, flefhy, and (tenderer at the 

 bafe. 



COROLLA : five yellow Petals, knee-fhaped, acu- 

 minated /preading, twice the length of the 

 calyx, fig. 2. 



STAMINA; ten Filaments, tapering, the length, 

 of the corolla; Anthers roundifh, and of 

 a yellowifh colour, fig. 3. 4. 



PISTILLUM : Germina five, upright, oblong, ter- 

 minating in flender Styles: Stigmata 

 fimple. fig. 5. 



In DilleniuVs edition of Rafs Synoffis this plant is omitted, and not confidered even as a variety of the 

 Sedum acre. Mr. Hudson, in the firft edition of his Flora Jnglica, introduced it as a diftinct fpecies; in which 

 he followed the opinion of Linn^us ; in his kit edition, without afligning any reafon, he makes it a variety of 

 the Sedum acre; Haller, however, and Scopoli confirm Linnjeus's opinion, and on fuch authority we iurely 

 may differ from Mr. Hudson. 



The conftant want of that biting tafte which gives the name of Wall Pepper to the Sedum acre, has been con- 

 fidered by many of our Englifh Botanifts fufficient to conftkute this a diftin£t fpecies; for though acrid plants 

 may fometimes become mild, as in the Hydropiper, yet inftances of that kind very rarely occur, but it is not in 

 its tafte alone that the fexangulare differs from the acre, in its leaves we fhall find a fatisfactorv difference, on 

 comparing thefe together as they grow on the flower ng ftems of both plants, we find thofe of the acre fhort, 

 broad at the bafe, and at a confiderable diftance afundci, vid.fig. 1. while thofe of the fexangulare are nearly of the 

 fame thicknefs^ throughout, longer, and more numerous, vid.fig. 1. we may alfo add, that they are in general 

 much redder, in the young (hoots of the Jexangulare the leaves form fix rows or angles, which are fometimes 

 jftraight and fometimes oblique; no traces of which are vifible in the acre; another circumlrance which adds 

 fome weight to the foregoing is, that the acre flowers a fortnight fooner than the fexangulare; the parts of the 

 fructification afford little or no difference, indeed a great famenefs in this refpect. runs through the whole genus. 



We find this plant growing plentifully on Greenwich-park-wall, the fouth fide, near the weftern corner. 



It flowers about the latter end of June. 



