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THE CRASSULA FAMILY. 



differing only by the more slender leaves, 

 several times longer than thick, and by 

 the flavour said to be less acrid. 



A rather scarce plant, scattered over 

 central and eastern Europe. Indicated 

 in some parts of England, especially on 

 old walls, in some of the eastern counties, 

 but with doubts as to its being indige- 

 nous. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 365. 



9. Bock Sedum. Sedum rupestre, Linn. (Fig. 366.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 170, and S. glaucum, Eng. Bot. t. 2477.) 



Stock perennial and creeping, with 

 numerous short barren shoots, 1 to 3 

 inches long ; the terminal flowering 

 stems ascending or erect, 6 inches to a 

 foot high. Leaves narrow, cylindrical, 

 with a short point, and more or less 

 extended at the base below their point 

 of insertion into a short spur. Flowers 

 yellow, considerably larger than in the 

 other British species, forming a termi- 

 nal cyme of 4 or 5 to 7 or 8 recurved 

 branches, each bearing from 3 to 5 or 6 

 sessile flowers. Sepals short and ovate ,* 

 the petals twice as long and linear. 



On old walls and stony places, in tem- 

 perate and southern Europe, extending 

 northwards to southern Sweden. In 

 Britain, it is undoubtedly wild in several 

 of the southern and western counties of 

 England and in Ireland, but has besides established itself in many 

 places where it has escaped from cultivation. Fl. summer. Slight 

 varieties have been distinguished under the names of S. reflexum (Eng. 

 Bot. t. 695) and 8. Fosterianum (Eng. Bot. t. 1802), but the charac- 

 ters assigned, derived chiefly from the more or less crowded, closely 



Fie. 366. 



