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linear-lanceolate, blunt, green, very fleshy, resembling the leaves. Petals white, 
lanceolate, rather acute, keeled, wide-spreading, twice the sepals. Stamens 
slightly shorter than petals, filaments white, anthers red. Scales small, yellowish, 
broader than long. Carpels erect, greenish, shorter than the stamens. 
Flowers June (gentle heat), July-August (cold frame). Not 
hardy. 
Habitat. — San Luis Potosi and Oaxaca, Mexico. 
I have the plant from Washington, New York, and Edinburgh. 
The name commemorates the Danish botanist F. Liebmann, who 
collected extensively in Mexico. 
75. Sedum compactum Rose (fig. 96). 
S. compactum Rose in " Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb.," 13, 297, 191 1. 
Illustration. — Loc. cit., pi. 53 (photo). 
A tiny creeping plant resembling S. humifusum in size and habit, 
but at once separated at any stage of growth by its glabrous leaves ; 
those of S. humifusum are strongly ciHate. In flower, the almost 
globular scented white blossoms are quite peculiar • those of humifusum 
are star-like, yellow and scentless. 
Description. — Evergreen, perennial, minute, creeping, forming a close 
greyish mat. Stems very short, much branched. Flower-stems an inch high, 
erect, leafy. Leaves of barren stems densely imbricate, glabrous, greyish green, 
sometimes dotted purple, obovate, blunt, very fleshy, flat on face, rounded on 
back, \ inch long j leaves of flower-stems looser and larger. Inflorescence 
terminal, of 2-3 flowers. Buds ovate. Flowers sub-globose, a little over \ inch 
long. Sepals ovate, blunt, fleshy, concave, purplish. Petals oval, apiculate, 
white, concave, twice the sepals. Stamens curved, | the petals, anthers yellow. 
Scales large, broad, yellow. Carpels short, erect, greenish. 
Flowers June (gentle heat) ; July (cold frame). Not hardy. 
Habitat. — Oaxaca, Mexico. 
Received from Washington and Edinburgh. The blossoms have 
a strong odour resembling elder flowers — scented blossoms are 
extremely rare in Sedum. 
The specific name has reference to its close habit. 
A tolerably homogeneous group of European species with two 
from Western Asia. 5. dasyphyllum and 5. brevifolium are closely 
allied, as are also the two Asiatic species, S. gracile and S. Alberti- 
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Fig. 96. — 5. compactum Rose. 
(2) Leaves terete or sub-terete. 
