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Flowers September-October. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Japan ; Central China (Diels) ; long cultivated in the 
latter country, but till lately not certainly known there in the wild 
state. 
The name spectahile refers to its notable appearance. 
Group 2. Verticillata. 
29. Sedum verticillatum Linn. (fig. 44). 
S. verticillatum Linn. "Species Plant.," 430, 1753. Maximowicz in 
Bulletin Acad. Petersbourg, 29, 139, 1883. Bongard in "Mem. 
Acad. Petersbourg," ser. 6, 3, 85, 1835. Not 5. verticillatum 
Hamet which =Triactina verticillata Hooker fil. and Thomson. 
Illustrations. — Linnaeus, "Amoen. Academicae," ed. 2, 2, tab. 4, fig. 14. 
Bongard, loc. cit. tab. 7. 
Easily recognized among the cultivated Sedums of the Telephium 
section by its comparatively narrow-stalked leaves in whorls of 4 or 5 
and its ^een flowers. 
Description. — A glabrous herbaceous perenniaL Rootstock thick, with 
fleshy spindle-shaped roots. Stems annual, erect, smooth, green, round, simple 
or with a few axillary branches above, 1-2 feet high. Leaves whorled, the lower 
ones often opposite or temate, the upper in whorls of 4 or 5, oblong-lanceolate, 
narrowed at both ends, stalked, obscurely and bluntly toothed, smooth, green, 
pale below, only slightly fleshy, minutely dotted purple, 2-3 inches long, 
f-i inch broad, petiole \ inch or more. Inflorescence corymbose, terminal, very 
dense, roundish on surface, sparingly leafy, 2-3 inches across, pedicels slender, 
equalling the flowers. Buds ovate, blunt. Flowers green, J inch across. Calyx 
cup-shaped, green, fleshy, lobes deltoid-lanceolate, rather acute, tube very short. 
Petals pale green, wide-spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4 times the sepals. 
Stamens slightly exceeding the petals, the epipetalous ones adnate in the lower 
third and shorter than the others, filaments pale green, anthers buff or pale red. 
Scales nearly twice as long as broad, linear-cuneate, retuse, yellow. Carpels 
stout, green, erect, equalling the petals, styles short. 
Flowers September. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Japan, Kamtschatka. 
Several of the East Asiatic species of the Telephium section have 
leaves arranged in whorls of three to five, but the present is the only 
one which appears to be in cultivation. I owe my plants to the kind- 
ness of Professor Miyabe of Sapporo University Botanic Garden. My 
plants, when young or when the inflorescence does not develop fully, 
tend to produce in autumn numerous small axillary buds above, after 
the manner of the nearly allied S. viviparum Maxim. 
Named from its whorled leaves. 
Var. nipponicum Praeger in Journ. of Bot., 56, 152, 1918. 
S. alboroseum Baker, f., Maximowicz in Bulletin Acad. St. Petersbourg, 
29, 141, 1884. 
A dwarf slender form of 5. verticillatum with opposite leaves grown 
at Kew under the name S. latifolium (a synonym of S. maximum L.) is 
clearly the plant which Maximowicz alludes to [loc. cit.) under S. albo- 
roseum and which he would have placed under verticillaium but for its 
