l6o JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Description. — A low, glabrous, evergreen perennial, forming a pale-green 
tuft, with barren and flowering shoots. Roots fibrous. Stems ascending, 
rooting below, 3-6 inches high, arising mostly in summer, remaining leafy- 
through the winter, and flowering and dying the following season. Leaves 
sessile, ternate, obovate, tapered below, rounded or blunt-pointed at apex, 
flat, fleshy, entire, ^ to i inch by J to ^ inch ; those of the barren shoots largest 
above, forming a loose rosette at the apex • the upper leaves of the flowering 
shoots small, alternate. Inflorescence a 3- to 4-branched cyme, branches patent, 
each flower subtended by an obovate, rather acute, stalked bract. Buds ovate, 
4-angled. Flowers 4-parted, J inch across, sessile. Sepals oblanceolate, blunt. 
Fig. 85. — S. iernatum Michaux. 
fleshy, separate to the base, pale green. Petals white, narrowly lanceolate, 
acute, I J times the sepals. Stamens spreading, equalling the sepals, filaments 
white, anthers purple. Scales yellow, scarcely emarginate, rather longer than 
broad. Carpels oblong, white, erect, spreading later, stellate-patent in fruit ; 
styles ^ the carpels. 
Flowers May-June. 
Habitat. — United States east of the Mississippi. 
Of easy cultivation, preferring a less dry and exposed position 
than that in which many Sedums feel at home. Not infrequent 
in cultivation, and usually correctly named. No varieties are on 
record, and the only one which I have seen is a very dwarf form 
which was in Canon Ellacombe's garden without a history. It differs 
sufficiently from the type as to deserve a name. 
