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a blunt point, erect, fleshy, reddish-green, persistent in fruit, separate nearly to 
the base. Petals almost erect, nearly ^ inch long, linear-lanceolate, concave, 
keeled, blunt, more than twice the sepals. Stamens shorter than the petals, 
filaments pink, anthers orange-red. Scales whitish, wide-spreading, as long as 
Fig. 1 10. — S. spurium M. B. 
broad. Carpels erect, pink or white, equalling the stamens ; in fruit reddish 
and nearly erect with spreading beaks. 
Flowers July- August. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Caucasus and Transcaucasia. 
One of the commonest Sedums in cultivation ; and, like most of 
the species widely spread in gardens, it possesses a multitude of names. 
A white-flowered form of it was described as a new species — S. opposiii- 
folium — in 1816 by Sims {Bot. Mag., pi. 1807) and the name has per- 
sisted — though challenged more than once — until Hamet finally 
disposed of it in 1908 (" Revision des Sedums du Caucase," in Trd. Bot. 
Sada (Tiflis), 8, part 3). Then it became confused with S. stoloni- 
