160 THE ORASSULA FAMILY. [ Cotyledon. 
branched, leafy at the base only, and bearing a long raceme of pendulous, 
yellowish-green flowers. Calyx very small. Corolla cylindrical, about 3 
lines long, becoming afterwards somewhat enlarged, with 5 short teeth, 
and enclosing the stamens and carpels. 
On rocks, walls, and old buildings in Western Europe, extending east- 
ward round the greater part of the Mediterranean, southwards to the 
Canary Islands, and northwards to Ireland, southern and western England, 
and the south and west counties of Scotland. Fl. summer. 
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III. SEDUM. SEDUM. 
Succulent herbs, sometimes woody at the base, with scattered leaves, 
occasionally opposite or whorled, especially at the base, or on barren stems ; 
and yellow, white, reddish or blue flowers, in terminal cymes or corymbs. | 
Sepals 4 to 6 (usually 5). Petals as many, distinct. Stamens twice as 
many. Carpels as many as the petals, each with an entire or emarginate 
scale at the base, and containing several seeds. 
A widely diffused genus, numerous in species, especially in central and 
southern Europe and central Asia, but extending also into North America, 
and the mountains of South America. A large number of the smaller, 
thick-leaved species, are found on dry rocks or stony places, whence the 
popular name of Stonecrop applied to several of them. 
Leaves flat, broad. 
Flowers dioecious, with 4 sepals and petals . 1, 8. Rhodiola. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, in large Wensiaund with 5 sepals and 
petals. : - ° . 2 SS. Lelephium. 
Leaves as thick, or nearly as thick, aS broad. 
Flowers white or reddish. 
Leaves shortly ovoid or globular. 
Whole plant quite glabrous . . 3. S.anglicum. 
Calyx and pedicels with a few short, glandular hairs. 4. SS. dasyphyllum, 
Leaves oblong or cylindrical. 
Glabrous perennial, with numerous short barren branches, 
and erect flowering stems . . 5. S. album. 
Viscidly downy, erect annual, without parren branches . 6, S. villosum. 
Flowers yellow. 
Flowering stems 1 to 3 inches high. Cymes of two or three 
short branches. 
Leaves ovoid or globular si . b é s ; . 7. 8. acre. 
Leaves cylindricaloroblong . . 8. S. sewangulare. 
Flowering stems at least 6 inches high, Cymes two or three 
times divided. 
Leaves flattened, acuminate . ; 3 , ‘ - 9. S. rupestre. 
Leaves cylindric With a subulate tip 3 ‘ ‘ 5 - 10. S, reflexum. 
The 8. Steboldi, from Japan, and some exotic species, are to be met with 
in our gardens. 
1. S. Rhodiola, DC. (fig. 360). Roseroot Sedum, Roseroot, Midsummer- 
men.—Stock short, thick, and almost woody; the annual stems erect, 
stout, simple, 6 inches to nearly a foot high, and leafy to the top. Leaves 
alternate, sessile, obovate or oblong, slightly toothed, from 6 lines to an 
inch long, the lower ones often reduced to brown scales. Flowers dicecious, 
yellow or rarely purplish, forming rather dense cymes, surrounded by the 
upper leaves, which often assume a yellow or purple tinge; the males with 
8 stamens, rather longer than the petals and sepals; the females with 4 
carpels, ending in short spreading styles. 
