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coloured. It cannot be confused with any other garden species of 
Sedum. It appears to be closely related to 5. Greggii, a species not 
in cultivation so far as I am aware, though its name occurs in garden 
lists ; the plant so named is usually S. moranense, a larger plant than 
Greggii, and with white, not yellow, flowers. 
Description.- — A small, glabrous, evergreen perennial. Stems decumbent, 
bare, woody, and rooting below, with many short wide-spreading branches. Leaves 
very small, closely imbricate, adpressed, very fleshy, ovate-rhomboidal, blunt, 
flat on face, convex on back, inch long. Flowers \ inch across, sessile, borne 
singly or 2 or 3 together at the ends of the branches. Buds lanceolate, blunt. 
Sepals green, fleshy, lanceolate, acute. Petals bright yellow, lanceolate, acute, 
wide-spreading, four times the sepals. Stamens nearly equalling the petals, 
wide-spreading, yellow. Scales yellow, as broad as long. Carpels yellow, erect, 
equalling the petals, styles long, slender. 
Flowers July (gentle heat) ; August (cold frame). Sometimes 
survives the winter in the open in Dublin. 
Habitat. — Mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. 
Received from Washington and Edinburgh, and also from the 
garden of the late Sir Frank Crisp at Henley-on-Thames. 
Hemsley's figure differs somewhat from my living plants in its 
narrower leaves, shorter sepals and petals, and shorter and more 
erect stamens — differences probably sufficiently explained by the 
fact that his figures were drawn from dried specimens. 
