ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 125 
from Hance's herbarium. It has a straight fasciate stem and numerous 
axillary branches, some of which bear flowers. The stem is more 
scabrid than in the living plant, but otherwise the specimen agrees 
satisfactorily with 5. floriferum. Chifu lies only fifty miles from Wei- 
hai-Wei. 
Named from the abundance of its flowers. 
42. Sedum hybridum Linn. (figs. 54^, 65). 
5. hybridum Linn., " Species Plant arum," 431, 1753. Maximowicz in 
Bull. Acad. Peiersbourg, 29, 147, 1883. Masters in Card. Chron., 
1878, ii. 463. 
Illustrations. — Reichenbach, " Flor. German.," 23, tab. 64. Nov. Comm. 
Soc. Scient.^ Gottingen, 6, tab. 5, 1776. 
Among the broad-leaved, yellow-flowered, hardy Sedums this 
variable species may be always recognized by its numerous barren 
stems and creeping habit. Its linear sepals also separate it from all 
its allies except S. floriferum. Its style of growth recalls the pink- 
flowered S. spurium rather than any of the Aizoon group, but, unlike 
that species, it possesses the thick woody rootstock which is 
characteristic of its section. It varies considerably in size ; in colour 
(from light green to dark green flushed with red) ; in size of flower 
(from f inch to |- inch in diameter) , the largest-flowered forms having 
very broad sepals (\ inch wide) and petals (y^g inch wide) and broad 
leaves (see fig. 65, upper half) ; and in shape of leaf, the width ranging 
from one-fourth to three-fourths of the breadth. The narrow-leaved 
forms closely resemble the broad-leaved form of 5. Middendorffianum, 
but the creeping habit, linear sepals, &c., distinguish the former. 
The average plant most resembles S. kamtschaticum, but in addition 
to the characters of habit, sepals, and fruit already mentioned, its 
unbranched flower-stems and smaller leaves and flowers give it a 
different appearance ; the orange and red tints which so frequently 
adorn kamtschaticum are absent, and instead a greenish hue pervades 
the buds and fading flowers, and the fruit is green. 
Description. — An evergreen perennial, forming a loose mat, with barren 
and flowering shoots. Rootstock becoming thick and woody. Stems creeping 
and branching, round, bare; branches ascending, leafy, about 6 inches long. 
Leaves alternate, glabrous, about i inch long by J to ^ inch wide, oblanceolate 
to spathulate, coarsely toothed in upper half, entire and tapering in lower 
half, scarcely stalked, green, teeth often tipped red. Inflorescence a terminal, 
much branched, leafy, umbellate, flattish cyme about 2 inches across ; bracts 
resembling the leaves, uppermost very small, entire. Flowers yellow, \ inch 
across. Buds oblong, pointed, with greenish ribs and spreading sepals. Sepals 
green, unequal, linear to oblong, subterete, distant, blunt, persistent in fruit, 
calyx- tube very short. Petals yellow, twice the sepals, wide-spreading, lanceolate, 
concave, with a short mucro behind the hooded tip. Stamens f the petals, 
filaments yellow, anthers orange. Scales small, whitish. Carpels greenish- 
yellow, with long subulate styles, compressed, green or red, erect in flower and 
semi-erect in fruit, connate only at the very base. 
Flowers sparingly in May, more abundantly in August and 
September. Hardy. 
