ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 159 
Description. — A small, erect, glaucous evergreen sub-shrub, 6-8 inches high. 
Roots fibrous. Stem smooth, round, dull red mottled and dotted with grey, bare 
below, much branched, branches spreading. Leaves alternate, crowded, sessile, 
linear-fusiform, sub-terete, patent or reflexed, glaucous, blunt, ^ inch long. 
Inflorescence compact, convex, i inch across, very leafy. Buds tapering, slender, 
blunt, often curved. Flowers \ inch across, pedicels very short. Sepals slightly 
unequal, green, very fleshy, oblong-tapering, blunt, slightly prolonged below 
point of insertion. Petals quite free, lanceolate, acute, patent or recurved, 
white with a slight greenish keel, more than twice the sepals. Stamens nearly 
equalling the petals, filaments white, anthers red. Scales minute, quadrate, 
yellowish, with a blunt notch. Carpels green, erect, shorter than the stamens, 
wijth long slender styles. 
Flowers January-February (gentle heat). Not hardy. 
Habitat. — No doubt, Mexico. 
Received from New York Botanic Garden labelled 5. Bourgaei 
No. 2. Also from Haage und Schmidt, of Erfurt, under the name 
5. farinosum, a misnomer ; 5. farinosum Lowe is a small Madeiran 
plant related to 5. album ; S. farinosum Rose is a fiat-leaved Mexican 
plant, with no affinity to the present species (see p. 141). 
Named from the grey colour of the plant. 
{b) Herbs. 
(i) Leaves flat. 
Ten species fall in here, coming from many different parts of the 
world. S. ternatum and S. Nevii from the United States, are allied, 
as are also S. moranense and 5. Liebmannianum, from Mexico. The 
Chinese 5. Chaneti stands quite apart. The remainder are small 
plants not closely related. 
ternatum Michaux magellense Tenore 
Nevii A. Gray monregalense Balbis 
adenofrichum Wallich moranense H.B.K. 
Chaneti Leveille Liebmannianum Hemsley 
alsinefolium Allioni compactum Rose 
66. Sedum ternatum Michaux (fig. 85). 
5. ternatum Michaux, " Flor. Bor. Amer.," 1, 277, 1803. 
Synonym. — S. portulacoides Willdenow, "Enum. Hort. Berol.," 484. 
Illustrations. — Bot. Mag., pi. 1977. Bat. Register, tab. 142. Garden, 45, 
409. Britton and Brown, "Illustr. Flor. Northern U.S.," 2, 167. 
A distinct little plant which, in the arrangement and characters 
of flowers, shows its affinity to its ally 5. Nevii, which inhabits much 
the same area of North America. It is well distinguished among 
the hardy Sedums by its broad, entire leaves arranged in threes 
(from which character it takes its name) , and largest near the top 
of the barren shoots, and white flowers with the parts in fours — the 
latter an almost unique feature in the genus, if we except the section 
Rhodiola. 
