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erect, equalling the stamens ; in fruit oblong, broadest near the tip, with a short, 
abrupt beak. 
Flowers May- June, and often again later. 
Habitat. — Italy, Greece, Asia Minor. 
A form from the rock garden at Dahlem has very large flowers, 
f inch across, pure white, and leaves mostly opposite ; another from 
the same source has leaves broader and thicker than usual and | 
inch flowers tinged purple ; a third, received from F. Sundermann, 
of Lindau, has greenish-white flowers of the normal size (J inch) and 
alternate leaves. 
Named after Monte Majella in Central Italy, the original station 
for the plant. 
72. Sedum monregalense Balbis (fig. 93). 
S. monregalense Balbis, " Miscell. Bot.," 23, 1804. Masters in Gard. 
Chron., 1878, ii. 716. 
Synonym. — S. cruciatum Desfontaines, " Cat. Plant. Paris," 162, 1829. 
Illustrations. — Reichenbach, " Flor. German.," 23, tab. 64a. Balbis, loc. 
cit., tab. 6. Cusin and Ansberque, " Herb. Flor. Fran9aise," Crassul., tab. 19. 
A slender little plant, distinguished by its small oblanceolate 
leaves in whorls of four, and lax, hairy, branching inflorescence of 
white flowers. 
Description. — A slender, weak perennial. Stems decumbent and rooting 
below, very erect above, the barren ones 1-2 inches high, glabrous or 
nearly so ; flowering stems 3-5 inches, hairy in the upper part, with axillary 
ascending branches throughout or towards the top. Leaves in whorls of 4, 
crowded, oblanceolate, blunt, fleshy, green, smooth or slightly glandular near 
the tip, ^ inch long ; those of the flower-stems similar, whorls distant, the upper 
ones hairy. Inflorescence a loose-panicled cyme, with alternate hairy bracts 
and long pedicels. Buds ovate, apiculate. Flowers f inch across. Sepals 
green, fleshy, ovate, acute, hairy. Petals white, ovate, acute, wide-spreading 
or slightly reflexed, with a greenish hairy keel, thrice the sepals. Stamens 
spreading, slightly shorter than the petals, anthers reddish. Scales small, 
white. Carpels whitish, erect, nearly erect in fruit. 
Flowers July- August. 
Habitat. — South-east France, Corsica, Italy. 
Rare in cultivation. I have seen it at the Botanic Gardens at 
Bremen and Edinburgh, and received it from the Tully Nursery, 
Co. Kildare, in all cases under the name magellense. It succeeds 
best in a damp, shady place. 
73. Sedum moranense H. B. and K. (fig. 94). 
S. moranense Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, " Nov. Gen. et Sp.," 6, 
44,1823. Hemsley, "Biol. Centr.Amer.,Bot.," 1, 397. "N.Amer. 
Flora," 22, 63. 
Synonyms. — S. Liebmannianum of some gardens (not of Hemsley, see p. i 74). 
S. Greggii of some gardens (not of Hemsley. wliich is a small yellow-flowered 
species not in cultivation, so far as I am aware) . 
A distinct little bushy plant typically some 3-4 inches high, with 
much-branched wiry red stems, bare below, clothed above with small 
