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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



78915 to 78974— Continued. 



A hardy shrub, up to 10 feet high, 

 with slender stems and bright yellow 

 flowers. Native to western Asia. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 72879. 



78945. Rosa foetida bicolor (Jacq.) 

 Willm. Rosaceae. 



Austrian copper brier rose. 



Differs from the type in having coppery 

 red flowers. 



78946 to 78964. Sedum spp. Crassula- 

 ceae. Stonecrop. 



78946. Sedum aizoon L. 



Aizoon stonecrop. 



A glabrous fleshy perennial, native to 

 Siberia, with several simple stems 1 to 

 2 feet high, alternate oblong-lanceo- 

 late distant leaves, and numerous yel- 

 low flowers in loose cymes. 



78947. Sedum album L. 



White stonecrop. 



A succulent perennial cespitose al- 

 pine, 4 to 6 inches high, native to the 

 Mediterranean countries. The white 

 flowers are in much-branched corym- 

 bose cymes. 



78948. Sedum album L. 



White stonecrop. 



Variety brevifolium. A form with 

 shorter leaves. 



78949. Sedum altissimum Poir. 



A hardy common species from the 

 Mediterranean region. The plants 

 vary in height from 6 inches to 2 

 feet, but all forms are characterized 

 by their decumbent stems, ascending 

 branches crowded with sharply tipped 

 more or less glaucous leaves, and very 

 tall flowering branches which bear 

 smaller leaves and "dense terminal 

 umbellate cymes of greenish-white 

 flowers. 



78950. Sedum anopetalum DC. 



A hardy species native from central 

 and southern Europe eastward, which, 

 like the preceding, varies greatly and 

 occurs under many names. It is re- 

 lated to 8. reflexum, but seems to differ 

 most in the more slender terete leaves 

 and the erect carriage of the develop- 

 ing inflorescence. The flowers are 

 usually greenish white, more rarely 

 yellow. 



78951. Sedum asiaticum (Don) 

 Spreng. 



A Himalayan succulent up to a foot 

 high, with opposite linear, irregularly 

 tootbed leaves and yellow flowers in 

 compact globose cymes. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 39075. 



78952. Sedum crassipes Wall. 



A low succulent Himalayan alpine 

 with slender stems 2 to 6 inches high, 

 linear somewhat dentate leaves one- 

 half inch long, and straw-colored flow- 

 ers in a dense cyme. 



78953. Sedum dasyphyllum L. 



Leafy stonecrop. 



A low hardy tufted perennial, native 

 to the Mediterranean countries, with 

 slender stems, and crowded glaucous 



78915 to 78974— Continued. 



beadlike leaves which are easily broken 

 from the stem. The flowers are white 

 tinted pink, but are not so showy as 

 the leaves. The plant is said to pre- 

 fer a dry site. 



78954. Sedum ellacombianum Praeger. 



A Japanese succulent perennial of 

 cespitose habit, with annual stems up 

 to 6 inches high, obovate or spathulate 

 leaves, and yellow flowers in a compact 

 cymose inflorescence. 



78955. Sedum ewersii Ledeb. 



Ewers stonecrop. 



A hardy succulent perennial with 

 cespitose ascending stems, opposite 

 glaucous elliptic or cordate leaves, and 

 purple flowers in rather dense terminal 

 corymbs. Native to central Asia. 



78956. Sedum kamtschaticum Fisch. 

 and Mey. Orange stonecrop. 



A glabrous perennial succulent with 

 greenish or pinkish branches 10 inches 

 long, deep-green coarsely toothed leaves, 

 and numerous yellow flowers in ter- 

 minal cymes. Native to eastern Asia. 



78957. Sedum maximum Suter. 



Great stonecrop. 



A stout bushy perennial up to 2 

 feet high, with opposite sessile leaves 

 and whitish flowers in terminal and 

 lateral cymes on long peducles, form- 

 ing a loose panicle. Native to Europe 

 and northwest Asia. 



78958. Sedum pilosum Bieb. 



A fleshy perennial of round-compact 

 habit, with small hairy leaves and rose- 

 pink flowers in a panicle. Native to 

 the Caucasus. 



78959. Sedum populifolium Pall. 



Poplar stonecrop. 



A shrubby glabrous succulent up to 

 10 inches high, with ovate-acute 

 coarsely toothed leaves iy 2 inches long 

 and terminal cymes of pinkish flowers. 

 Native to Siberia. 



78960. Sedum rupestre L. 



A succulent perennial 6 to 12 inches 

 high, from western Europe, with glau- 

 cous stems and foliage which redden 

 with age. The numerous yellow flowers 

 are in umbellate, cymes. 



78961. Sedum semenovii Masters. 



An Asiatic succulent with annual 

 stems about a foot high, from a peren- 

 nial rhizome. The sessile leaves, in six 

 rows, are an inch long, and the whitish 

 flowers are in compact globose termi- 

 nal cymes. 



78982. Sedum spurium Bieb. 



Variety splendens. A succulent 

 perennial, native to Asia Minor, with 

 a rosette of cuneate-obovate pubescent 

 leaves and a corymb of flesh-colored 

 flowers, purple veined beneath. 



78963. Sedum telephium L. 



Liveforever. 



An erect fleshy perennial a foot or 

 more high with scattered oblong-ovate 

 leaves and numerous pink, red-spotted 

 flowers in dense terminal and lateral 

 cymes. Native from central Europe to 

 Siberia. 



