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of North American yellow-flowered spathulate-leaved Sedums it 
may be distinguished by its remarkably long, acute, sub-erect petals 
(resembling in shape and position those of the common 5. spurium), 
and tapering buds no less than f inch long. 
Description. — A small, creeping, glabrous evergreen perennial, forming a 
green mat tinged red. Stems many, creeping, bare below, round, smooth, with 
many ascending branches ; barren shoots i to 3 inches high, leafy, flowering 
shoots about 6 inches, unbranched, leaves more distant. Leaves alternate or 
opposite, shining green, often suffused with red, fiat, very fleshy, spathulate, 
sessile, very blunt at apex, tapered below, about f by f inch ; those of flowering 
stems similar. Inflorescence flat, inch across, of 2 or 3 simple, forked, or 
twice-forked branches with flowers in the forks, bracts similar to the leaves, 
the uppermost ones very small. Buds ovate-elongate, f inch long, tapered to a 
long, slender point. Flowers sessile or lower ones shortly stalked, not opening 
widely. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, green, only slightly fleshy, tube short. 
Petals lanceolate-attenuate, erect or slightly spreading, tapering to a long point, 
united in their lowest \, nearly thrice the sepals, yellow. Stamens yellow, erect, 
f the petals. Scales small, yellow. Carpels green, erect, equalling the stamens, 
nearly erect in fruit. 
Flowers July-August. 
Habitat. — Western North America from Alaska to Northern 
California. Named after the locality in which it was first discovered 
— the mouth of the Oregon River. 
(ii.) Leaves not broadest above {ovate to linear). 
No fewer than twenty-two of the cultivated Sedums fall under 
this definition, natives of various parts of Europe, Asia, and America. 
The best-marked group among these is that formed by the last seven 
species, formed of six European and one (5. stenopetalum) N. American 
plant, and well illustrated by the British 5. rupestre and S. reflexum. 
Resembling these in their linear leaf -form, but differing by their 
stellate fruit and smaller size, come three Himalayan or Chinese 
plants — 5. muUicaule, trullipetalum, Celiae, belonging to the group 
Japonica. 5. nudum and lancerottense are closely allied tender species 
with egg-shaped leaves, from the Atlantic islands. The remainder 
are a rather miscellaneous assortment. 
humifusum Rose. 
cupressoides Hemsley. 
acre Linn. 
Stribrnyi Velen. 
oaxacanum Rose. 
nudum Aiton. 
lancerottense R. P. Murray. 
japonicum Siebold. 
alpestre Villar. 
Douglasii Hooker. 
muUicaule Wall. 
trullipetalum H. f. & T. 
Celiae Hamet. 
multiceps Coss. & l5ur. 
sex angular e Linn. 
rupestre Linn. 
reflexum Linn. 
altissimum Poiret. 
anopetaliim DC. 
stenopetalum Pursh. 
pruinatum Brotero. 
amplexicaule DC. 
