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account of the cultivated Stonecrops, but states that he had not seen 
it, and, as the name is sometimes applied in catalogues to other species, 
the plant cannot be accepted as formerly in English gardens. The 
Fig. 149. — S. japonicum Siebold. 
following description is condensed from Miquel and Maximowicz 
{loc. cit.) and the figure is taken from Makino {loc. cit.). 
Description. — A glabrous, creeping, evergreen perennial. Stents rooting below, 
round, smooth, with ascending barren and flowering branches, 4 to 6 inches liigh, 
the former usually the taller. Leaves alternate, \ inch long, twice as long as 
the internodes, linear-oblong, obtuse, sessile, semiterete, shortly spurred. In- 
