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arranged in threes, and short flowering stems. Its nearest ally is 
the Japanese S. linear e, which is of similar appearance, but has longer 
leaves only half as broad and flowering stems several times taller ; 
it is, moreover, tender, and unable to endure the winter out of doors. 
The variegated Sedum grown in greenhouses under the name of 
S. sarmentosum variegatum, or 5. carneum variegatum, is a form of 
5. lineare, not of sarmentosum (see p. 229). 
Description. — A glabrous, evergreen, prostrate perennial. Stems smooth, 
round, reddish ; barren shoots long (to i foot or more), prostrate, rooting at the 
tip and occasionally elsewhere, often branched, in the open usually dying in 
winter save for the rooted base and tip ; flowering shoots ascending, short (about 
3 inches), unbranched. Leaves temate, broadly lanceolate, acute, bright green, 
flat, fleshy, entire, sessile, i by J inch, with a semicircular membranous ad- 
pressed spur, those of the baxren and flowering shoots similar. Inflorescence a 
flat, rather lax, leafy cyme, of 3 often forked branches, 2 inches across. Buds 
ovate, acute. Flowers sessile save the lowest, to f inch across. Sepals equal or 
nearly so, linear-lanceolate, green, fleshy, blunt, separate to the base. Petals 
bright yellow, linear-lanceolate, acute, wide-spreading, equalling the sepals or 
\ longer than them. Stamens spreading, shorter than the petals, filaments 
yellow, anthers yellow on the faces, red on the edges. Scales small, whitish, 
quadrate, slightly notched. Carpels yellow, compressed, equalling the stamens, 
in fruit spreading, overtopped by the large persistent calyx ; styles tapering. 
Flowers July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — North China, Japan. 
Rather rare in cultivation. The name sarmentosum (Latin twiggy) 
is used in botany to signify the producing of runners as in the straw- 
berry, and refers to the character of the barren shoots, which are 
very unusual in Sedum, though matched to some extent in its close 
ally 5. lineare, and exceeded in the Mexican 5. longipes. 
106. Sedum lineare Thunberg (fig. 131). * 
5. lineare Thunberg, "Flora Japon.," 187, 1784. Miq^xel in Annates 
Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Batav., 2, 156. Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. 
Peter shourg, 29, 148. 
The variegated form of this species has been long in cultivation 
under the names of sarmentosum variegatum and carneum variegatum. 
This form, which is well known, is more compact and stouter in growth 
than the type, as represented by the only living plant which I have 
seen, and by good dried specimens in the Edinburgh Herbarium. I 
had a long hunt for this (the type), but finally found it in one of the 
houses at Dahlem (Berlin Botanic Garden) under the name of sar- 
mentosum, to which the present species is closely allied, but from 
which it is at all times distinguishable by its much narrower, longer 
leaves, taller flower-stems, and other characters. 
Description. — A straggling, glabrous, evergreen perennial. Stem weak, 
decumbent and sometimes rooting below, reddish, roujid, smooth, branches 
mostly ascending, but barren shoots sometimes elongate, prostrate, and rooting 
as in S. sarmentosum ; flower-stems about 6 inches, not shorter than tlie ascending 
barren shoots. Leaves ternate, linear to linear-lanceolate, rather light green, 
flat on face, paler and rounded on back, bluntly pointed, sessile, shortly spurred, 
ascending, |-i by \ inch, mostly exceeding the intemodes. Inflorescence 
terminal, lax, flat, umbellate, inch across, of a central, short-stalked flower 
