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more abundant in the East. One species, 5. telephioides (perhaps only 
a variety of S. Telephium), is confined to N. America. At least half 
of the group is in cultivation, including representatives of all the 
types found within the section ; many of them are familiar garden 
plants. 
Series I. ERECTICAULES. 
Stems tall (1-2 feet), stout, erect, leaves large (2-4 inches long). 
Group I. Eu-Telephia. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, rarely ternate. 
maximum Suter. alhoroseum Baker.- 
Telephium Linn.-^ pseudospectahile Praeger. 
Taquetii Praeger. spectahile Boreau. 
The first two of these are familiar European plants ; the rest 
come from the Far East, where several additional species not in 
cultivation also occur. 
Group 2. Verticillata. 
Leaves 4- or 5-verticillate. 
verticillatum Linn. 
This is a small Chino -Japanese group, only one of which is in 
cultivation. 
Series IL HUMILICAULES. 
Stems short (about J foot), weak, nor erect, leaves smaller (i inch 
long or less). 
Group I. Arcuatae. 
Stems annual, arching or at least erect at the base. 
Ewersii Ledebour. Sieboldii Sweet. 
cauticolum Praeger. Taiarinowii Maximowicz. 
Group 2. Repentes. 
Stems perennial, creeping. 
Anacampseros Linn. cyaneum Rudolph. 
I have adopted a grouping founded on the larger features of the 
plants, because the flowers in the Telephium group have a somewhat 
close resemblance, and moreover a classification founded upon them 
brings together plants of very different growth-form and separates 
others, which in all but flower have clear affinities. 
Fig. 36 shows the gynoecia and leaves of the Eu-Telephium series 
in the order of relationship indicated by the flowers ; it will be evident 
