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THE CRASSULA FAMILY. 



of Scotland, in Wales, and in Ireland, and appears also occasionally, 

 but rarely, on the eastern coasts of England. Fl. summer. 



4. Thick-leaved Sedum. Sedum dasyphyllum, Linn. (Fig. 361.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 656.) 



Very nearly allied to the English S., 

 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 w T hite tinged with 

 rose-colour ; and the petals broader and 

 not so pointed. 



Much more widely spread on rocks 

 and walls, in western, central, and south- 

 ern Europe, than the English S., but 

 does not extend eastward to the Russian 

 territory, nor northward into northern 

 Germany. In Britain, only indicated in 

 a few localities in southern England, with some doubt as to its being 

 indigenous, but probably truly so in Cork county, Ireland. FL summer. 



Fig. 361. 



White Sedum. Sedum album, Linn. (Fig. 362.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1578.) 



Stock creeping and procumbent, bear- 

 ing 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 of a pure white or 

 slightly pink, rather small and numerous, 

 in elegant terminal cymes or corymbs. 

 Sepals short, oval, and obtuse. Petals near 

 three times as long, oblong and obtuse. 



On old walls, rocks, cottage-roofs, etc., 

 over the greater part of Europe and 

 Russian Asia, except the extreme north. 

 In Britain, perhaps truly indigenous in 

 the Malvern Hills, in Somersetshire, 

 and in some parts of Ireland ; in other 

 places where it has been observed, it 



Fig. 362. 



had probably been introduced from gardens. Fl. summer. 



