ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 169 
only the flowering ones perish out year by year, exactly as in Saxifraga 
Cotyledon." 
Named after its first collector, L. Chanet. 
70. Sedum alsinefolium AUioni (fig. 92). 
5. alsinefolium Allioni, " Flor. Pedemont.,"2, 119, tab. 22, fig. 2, 1785. 
Masters in Card. Chron., 1878, ii. 750. 
Illustrations. — Allioni, loc. cit. (poor). Cesati, " Stirpes Ital." fasc. 2 (good). 
An extremely distinct species, which one would not suspect of 
being a Sedum when out of flower, the small, tufted hairy rosettes 
suggesting rather a Saxifrage. Hairy throughout, even to the back 
of the petals, which are of unusual breadth. It is not to be mistaken 
for any other species, its leaves, inflorescence, and flowers being all 
very distinct (see fig. 92). 
Description. — A small tufted perennial, dark green, shining, hairy, sticky. 
Barren shoots short, forming close, flattish rosettes an inch across ; flowering 
shoots 4-6 inches high, slender and weak, with spreading branches. Leaves 
of barren shoots stalked, fleshy, hairy on both sides, J-f inch long ; the petiole 
half the ovate entire lamina, which is bluntly pointed at apex and tapered below ; 
leaves of the flowering shoots larger and more distant, the upper ones sessile. 
Inflorescence a very lax panicle. Buds oblong-ovate, apiculate. Flowers 
comparatively few and small, J inch across, on long pedicels. Sepals erect, 
green, hairy, fleshy, lanceolate, acute. Petals nearly erect in lower part, patent 
above, thrice the sepals, white, broadly ovate, apiculate, hairy on back. Stamens 
erect, shorter than the petals, filaments white, anthers pinkish. Scales bright 
red. Carpels green, erect, equalling the stamens, styles divergent. 
Flowers June- July. 
Rare in cultivation. I have seen it at Glasnevin (whither the late 
C. F. Ball brought it from the- Alps), Kew, and Edinburgh; M. 
CoRREVON sent it to Wisley, and Masters enters it in 1878 as seen by 
him in the living state, presumably in a garden. Rare in the wild 
state, being confined to Piedmont, the Alpes Maritimes, and Liguria. 
In my garden I found protection from slugs was desirable. 
The name comes from the likeness of its leaves to those of an 
Alsine. 
71. Sedum magellense Tenore (fig. 91, lower part). 
5. magellense Tenore, Flor. Napolitana, 1, xxvi. 1811-15. 
Synonym. — S. olympicum Boissier, " Diagnoses Plant. Nov.," Ser. i, 3, 16, 1843. 
Illustrations. — Tenore, loc. cit., tab. 139, fig. i. Raulin, "Crete." tab. 13. 
fig. c. Verh. z.-b. Gesellsch. Wien, 16, tab. 9-10, 1866. 
A very distinct little plant, known at once by its racemose 
inflorescence, which is 1-2 inches long and only about' J inch 
broad, and its bright green, flat, obovate leaves J inch long on the 
barren shoots. The oblong carpels, too, are very unusual. There 
is some variation as regards the flowers, which are sometimes pure 
white, or have a greenish or purplish tinge, and are larger in some 
forms than in others. 
