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green, fleshy, nearly erect, broadest near the very blunt tip, tube very short. 
Petals greenish yellow, times the sepals, ovate, blunt, erect. Stamens equalling 
the sepals, filaments green, anthers yellow. Carpels green, at first erect, spreading 
widely in fruit. 
Flowers June. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Mountains of Central and Southern Europe and Asia 
Minor. 
124. Sedum Douglasii Hooker (fig. 151). 
S. Douglasii Hooker, " Flora Bor. Amer." 1, 228, 1832. 
Synonym. — S. himalense or himalaicum of many gardens (not S. himalense 
of Don, for which see p. 51). 
Sedum Douglasii recalls in its narrow, very fleshy leaves and golden- 
yellow flowers the difficult rupesire group which, though mainly 
European, has a representative in North America (to which region 
the present species belongs) in S. stenopetalum. But in its stellate 
fruit it differs so widely from the members of that group that it can 
hardly be included with them. As it is often confused with one 
or other of the rupesire section, some simple diagnostic characters 
may be mentioned. From S, stenopetalum the flattened leaves, 
the shaggy clothing of withered leaves on the middle portion of 
the shoots, and the short proliferous branches on the flowering stems 
distinguish the present species. S. reflexum and 5. rupesire are 
separated by their creeping character, linear leaves, and inflorescence 
drooping and convex when young. 5. aliissimum has taller flowering 
stems, whitish flowers, and, like reflexum, has no persistent withered 
leaves nor proliferous buds on the flowering-shoots. S. anopeialum 
is separated by its creeping habit, long sepals, and absence of withered 
leaves and proliferous shoots. 
Description. — A small, stout, erect, glabrous, evergreen perennial, green, often 
tinged red. Stems bare below, clothed in middle portion with withered leaves, 
leafy near top ; barren shoots i to 3 inches high, erect, slightly branched ; flower- 
ing stems stout, 3 to 12 inches high, unbranched, leaves more distant, the upper 
ones with short axillary shoots which persist after the fall of the leaf and 
ultimately drop off and take root. Leaves alternate, crowded, linear to linear- 
lanceolate, subterete, flattened especially on the upper side, rather acute, ^-f 
inch long by broad, with a short adpressed membranous spur ; those of the 
flowering stem distant, linear-lanceolate, blunt. Inflorescence a compact, leafy 
cyme with about 3 stiff, stout, straight, few-flowered branches and a flower in the 
fork. Buds acute, ribbed, ovate. Flowers sessile, bright yellow, ^ to | inch across. 
Sepals yellow, ovate, acute, not fleshy. Petals 4 times the sepals, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, with an apiculus behind the tip, orange-yellow, wide-spreading, 
keeled. Stamens yellow, spreading, slightly shorter than the petals. Scales 
quadrate, short, yellow. Carpels erect, later spreading, greenish yellow, shorter 
than the stamens ; stellate-patent in fruit. 
Flowers June- July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Western N. America from British Columbia to California 
and Montana. 
Not infrequent in English gardens, generally under the quite 
erroneous name of himalense. 
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