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flower it rather resembles S. acre, but may then be known by its 
leaves broadest about the middle, not at the base. Its flat leaves and 
inflorescence of 2 (or at most 3) branches borne on stems only i to 2 
inches high, distinguish it from small forms of S. album. 
Description. — A minute, mat-forming, glabrous evergreen perennial. Stem 
slender, creeping and rooting, with many ascending barren and flowering shoots 
1-2 inches high. Leaves alternate, crowded, often tinged red, sessile, elliptic, 
blunt, clasping, very thick, rounded on both faces, | to -^^ inch long, set at right 
angles to the stem, with a slight spur not adpressed to the stem. Inflorescence 
usually of 2 wide-spreading simple branches bearing each 3 to 6 flowers, with 
a flower in the fork. Buds ovate, blunt. Flowers J inch across. Sepals ovate, 
blunt, very fleshy, resembling the leaves, separate to the base. Petals more 
than twice the sepals, lanceolate, apiculate, white, flushed pink on back, keeled. 
Stamens spreading, equalling the petals, filaments white, anthers purple. Scales 
crimson, spathulate, twice as long as broad. Carpels slightly spreading, nearly 
as long as the petals, white, turning red later, erect in fruit. 
Flowers June-July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Western Europe, from Norway to Spain. 
It derives its name from the fact that it was first described from 
English specimens. 
Var. minus var. nov.* 
Plant very small, the leaves and flowers being f of the normal 
size (linear). Flowers pinker. 
A very pretty and distinct little plant, obtained in the garden of 
Mr. E. A. Bowles at Waltham Cross. No doubt a wild form. 
79. Sedum album Linn. (fig. 102). 
5. album Linn., "Species Plantarum," 432,1753. Masters in Gar^^. 
Chron. 1878, ii. 717. 
Synonyms. — S. Alberti of gardens (not of Regel, see p. 191 ; nor of Kegel's 
" Gartenflora," tab. 1019, fig. 2) ; 5. halticum Hartm. 
Illustrations. — Sowerby, " English Bot." ed. 3, pi. 529, fig. i. Reichenbach, 
" Flor. German.," 23, tab. 55. De Candolle, " Plantes Grasses," tab. 22. " Flora 
Danica," l,tab. 66. Curtis, " Flor. Londin.," 2, pi. 52. Allioni, " Flor. Pedemont.," 
3, tab. 65. Cusin and Ansberque, "Herb. Flor. Fran9aise, Crassul," tab. 20. 
Plenck, " Icones Plant. Medicalium," tab. 352. 
Though varying much in shape and colour of leaf, this common 
species, which masquerades in gardens under many names, is always 
easily recognized, as no other species has any close resemblance to 
it. In the vegetative parts the yellow-flowered 5. diver gens somewhat 
resembles it, but is separated by its flattish opposite leaves, widest 
above. The very characteristic inflorescence finds its counterpart 
in S. gypsicolum, but this has very different leaves, flattened, ovoid- 
rhomboidal, and puberulous. 
Description. — A small, glabrous, creeping, evergreen perennial, soon forming 
a large mat. Stem round, much branched, branches ascending. Leaves 
alternate, linear-oblong to obovate, terete or flattened above, J to ^ inch long, 
blunt, sessile, those of the flower-stem larger and fewer. Flower-stem 3 to 6 
inches high, ascending, usually unbranched. Inflorescence of terminal and 
I* Planta minima, foliis floribusque quam in typo] diametro \ minoribus, flori- 
bus roseoribus. 
