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upper ones rounded below), shortly and indistinctly stalked (instead of sessile) ; 
ovaries not furrowed on back. 
Flowers August-September. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Britain to Central Europe. 
When characteristic, S. purpureum and S. Faharia are easily 
distinguished, but there are many plants which one hesitates to refer 
to one form or to the other — ^whether this is due to crossing or not 
I cannot offer an opinion. The " wild " British plants which I have 
grown have all been Faharia, but I do not attempt to go into the 
question of the distribution in the British Isles of the two forms. 
The confusion which seems fated to hang over the Sedums is here 
especially marked, as, for instance, when one receives from one of the 
ablest of English field botanists roots of the Japanese 5. alhoroseum 
as a native Telephium form from woods in Sussex ! 
As in the case of its near ally 5. maximum, a large number of 
varieties of S. Telephium have been described, particularly by French 
botanists, and a good account of these will be found in Rouy and Camus, 
" Flore de France," vol. vii. For reasons stated in the Introduction to 
the present paper (p. 15) and under S. maximum on p. 81, no attempt 
is made here to enter into a discussion of these. The reader seeking 
information regarding them should consult Boreau, " Monographic 
de quelques Sedum," Mem. Soc. Acad, d' Angers, vol. xx. 1866 ; Masters 
in Gard. Chron., 1878, ii. ; Rouy and Camus, " Flore de France," vol. vii. 
1901 ; and the beautiful coloured plates in Jordan and Fourreau, 
" Icones ad Floram Europae," vol. i. 1866-8. It may be said that 
they belong almost altogether to S. purpureum, not to S. Faharia. 
Among the garden forms variation is very noticeable in the height 
and colour of stem ; in the arrangement, size, shape, dentition, and 
colour of leaves ; and in the size, shape, and colour of inflorescence 
and flower. 5. Telephium seems to vary much more in directions 
other than towards maximum, than 5. maximum does, except towards 
Telephium. Nevertheless, the presence of many intermediates is 
discouraging in the search for satisfactory varieties. In the case 
of Telephium, confusion is very probably produced in gardens by the 
natural crossing of varieties, as the species tends to produce itself 
from seed more freely than the majority of Sedums. 
Var. Borderi Rouy and Camus. 
Of the forms of S. Telephium found in gardens which I have 
succeeded in identifying with described varieties, the one which appears 
most satisfactory, as maintaining a distinct and uniform facies, is 
S. purpureum var. y Borderi Rouy and Camus, " Flore de France," 
7, 103-4 (Anacampseros Borderi Jordan and Fourreau, " Brev. Plant. 
Nov.," fasc. i. 30, and " Icones Plant. Eur.," t. 96), which has leaves 
deeply and irregularly toothed and distinctly stalked (fig. 38, a). This 
was received from several garden sources, mostly named var. 
carpaiicum (S. carpaticum Reuss), which is somewhat similar. 
