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Flowers August-September. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Korea. 
For the opportunity of studying this plant I am indebted to the 
Director of the Botanic Gardens at Upsala, who kindly sent his only 
plant and allowed me to grow it for a couple of seasons. It was raised 
from seed collected by Abbe E. J. Taquet in Korea and distributed 
by the Dendrologische Gesellschaft of Vienna. 
The plant varies as regards the size of its flowers, which are, how- 
ever, always larger than those of any of its allies ; if grown- in shade, 
the purple pigment is not developed, the flowers being then wholly 
green ; but the long slender curved carpels will always identif^^ it, 
fresh or dried. 
Seedlings which I raised from this plant were evidently crosses 
with S. Telephium, as most of my maximum seedlings have been 
(see p. 8), and were intermediate in characters of both leaf and flower. 
A puzzling plant of unknown antecedents, received from Edinburgh 
as S. alhoroseum, almost exactly matches these and appears to be 
of similar parentage, though where the Taqueiii blood came from in 
that case is unknown. 
Named after its collector. 
26. Sedum alboroseum Baker (figs. 36^?, 41). 
5. alhoroseum Baker in Saunders' " Refug. Bot.," tab. 33, 1868. 
Maximowicz in Bulletin Acad. Petersbourg, 29, 140, 1883. 
Synonyms, — S. erythrostictum Masters in Card. Chron., 1878, ii. 337 (not of 
Miquel in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat., 2, 155, which appears to be a form of 
5. Telephium — see Maximowicz, loc. cit.). 
S. japonicum of gardens (not of Siebold, see p. 254). 
5. macrophyllum of gardens (a name also appHed to S. maximum). 
Illustrations. — Baker, loc. cit. Regel, " Gartenflora," tab. 709, figs. 4-5. 
Not infrequent in gardens, mostly under the names of japonicum 
or macrophyllum, and reported by Baker as in cultivation for many 
years before he described it in 1868. Leaves usually opposite, though 
Baker says they are never so. The plant most resembles a large 
pale Fabaria, but the whitish petals and rosy carpels distinguish 
it. In bud the uppermost leaves (bracts) half enclose the inflorescence 
in a characteristic way, while in the Telephium forms these are spread- 
ing ; indeed, all the leaves are more erect than in Telephium. Taller 
and slenderer than the wholly pink-flowered 5. spectabile, of which the 
leaves are broader, more crowded and more spreading and the inflor- 
escence larger and flatter. A very late flowerer (latter half of 
September). The name alboroseum is taken from the white and red 
flowers. 
Description. — A tall glaucous herbaceous perennial. Rootstock thickened, 
with carrot-like tuberous roots. Stems annual, 1-2 feet high, smooth, round, 
unbranched, erect. Leaves rather distant, usually opposite (sometimes alternate 
or temate), ascending, lower concave, upper smaller and very fiat, ovate to 
obovate-cuneate, narrowed into a short petiole, pale glaucous green, bluntly 
toothed, 2-3 inches long by half as broad. Inflorescence dense, sparingly leafy, 
of terminal and often lateral corymbs. Buds ovoid, rather blunt, remaining 
