Sedum. | XXX, ORASSULACEA. 161 
In clefts of rocks, in northern and Arctic Europe and Asia, and in the 
higher mountain ranges of central Europe and Asia. Abundant in the 
mountains of Scotland, northern England, and Ireland, descending also to 
maritime cliffs in western Scotland. £7. summer. The smell of the root- 
stock, when drying, has been compared to that of roses, whence its specific 
name. 
2. S. Telephium, Linn. (fig. 361). Orpine Sedum, Orpine, Livelong. 
—Rootstock perennial, the annual stems hard, erect, simple, about a foot 
high or rather more. Leaves scattered, obovate, or oblong, and coarsely 
toothed ; the lower ones 2 inches long or even more, and much narrowed or 
even stalked at the base; the upper ones often rounded at the base. 
Flowers numerous, purple in the British variety, forming a handsome 
corymb at the top of the stem. Sepals 5, short and pointed. Petals more 
than twice as long. Stamens 10, rather shorter than the petals. © 
On the borders of fields, hedge-banks, and bushy places, in northern 
and central Hurope and Russian Asia, chiefly confined to hilly districts in 
the more southern portion of its area. Occurs in most of the British 
counties, but has been so long cultivated in cottage gardens, and is so very 
tenacious of life, that it is difficult to say how far it is really indigenous. 
Fl. summer, rather late, [S. Fabaria, Koch, is a more slender state, with 
the bases of the upper leaves cuneate, and smooth carpels. | 
3. S.anglicum, Huds. (fig. 362). Hnglish Sedum.—A small perennial, 
seldom more than 3 inches high, and quite glabrous in all its parts; the 
stems decumbent and much branched at the base, with short, thick, almost 
globular leaves, crowded on the short barren branches, more loosely scattered 
and occasionally opposite on the flowering ones. Flowers white, occa- 
sionally tinged with pink, in a short, irregular cyme. Sepals short and 
green. Petals more than twice as long, lanceolate, and more or less 
pointed. 
In rocky or stony places, usually not far from the sea, in western 
~ Europe, from Portugal, to southern Norway, ascending also high into the 
mountains of the south-west. Abundant especially along the western coast 
of Scotland, in Wales, and in Ireland, and appears also occasionally, but 
more rarely, on the eastern coasts of England. 2. summer. 
4, S.dasyphyllum, Linn. (fig. 363). Thick-leaved Sedum.—Very 
nearly allied to S. anglicum, but usually rather smaller, of a glaucous green, 
and the flowering summits more or less viscid, with short, glandular hairs ; 
_ the leaves thicker, and more frequently opposite; the cymes of flowers 
more compact, of a dead white tinged with rose-colour; and the petals 
broader and not so pointed. 
Much more widely spread on rocks and walls, in western, central, and 
southern Europe, than S. anglicum, but does not extend eastward to the 
‘Russian territory, nor northward into northern Germany. In Britain, only 
found on old walls, cottage roofs, etc., in southern England, and in Cork 
county, Ireland, with great doubt as to its being really indigenous. FV. 
summer, 
5. S. album; Linn. (fig. 364). White Sedum.—Stock creeping and 
procumbent, bearing in winter short barren stems with crowded leaves, and 
in summer erect flowering branches, from 4 to 6 inches high, and perfectly 
glabrous. Leaves scattered, oblong or cylindrical, 3 to 6 lines long. Flowers 
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