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f. aureum Masters, loc. cit. 685. 
Shoots tipped with golden variegation throughout the earher part 
of the year. A bright Httle plant, often used for edgings and carpet - 
bedding. Probably of garden origin. 
f. elegans Masters, loc. cit. 
Shoots tipped with silver variegation in the earlier par-t of the 
year. Not so showy nor so hardy as the last. 
Observation. — 5. Drucei Graebner, in " Bot. Exch. Club Report " 
for 1912, 160. This is the common British S. acre L., and I have else- 
where (Journ. of Bot., 65,. 212) recorded the observations according to 
which I fail to distinguish between it and Continental forms of the 
same species. 
118. Sedum Stribrnyi Velenovsky (fig. 145). 
5. Stribrnyi Velenovsky in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift, 42, 14, 1892. 
Halacsy, 'Conspect. Flor. Graecae," 1, 585. 
While resembling a small reflexum in its leafy parts, the inflorescence 
recalls rather that of acre. Its most distinctive character is the 
manner in which the flowering stems begin to fork almost from the 
base and continue dividing to near the top, so that a single stem 
may bear a dozen ultimate flowering branches. The lax disposition 
of the flowers on the branches is also characteristic. 5. Stribrnyi 
is a dull little plant until it blooms, when it is showy and effective. 
Description. — An evergreen, glabrous perennial forming a tuft. Stems 
rooting below, with many ascending branches ; barren shoots much branched, 
ascending, 2 to 6 inches high, flowering shoots also branched, 3 to 6 inches high. 
Leaves crowded, of a rather glaucous green, linear, slightly tapering upwards, 
blunt, sessile, slightly spurred, ^ inch long, subterete, slightly flattened, chiefly 
above. Inflorescence compound, each branch of the flower-stem ending in a 
2- or 3-branched cyme with a flower at the fork ; the cyme-branches straight, 
almost erect, i to 2 inches long. Flowers \ inch across, subsessile. Sepals slightly 
unequal, very fleshy, subterete, green, lanceolate, blunt, resembling the leaves, 
persistent in fruit. Petals bright yellow, very acute, wide-spreading, lanceolate, 
strongly keeled, less than twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, slightly shorter 
than the petals. Scales very small, pale yellow. Carpels spreading, greenish 
yellow, spreading in fruit, which is rather cup-shaped. 
Flowers July. Hardy. 
Habitat, — Bulgaria, Greece, 
Described comparatively recently from Bulgarian specimens, 
and since found in Greece, Unknown in cultivation until a few 
years ago, when Sir Jos.slyn Gore-Booth, while collecting in Bulgaria, 
received the plant from Stribrny and brought it home, but in his 
garden it got labelled 5. Sartorianum. About the same time the 
late Mr, C, F. Ball, of Glasnevin Garden, brought it back from the 
same country without a name. 
Named after the Bulgarian botanist Stribrny. 
