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Description. — A small, evergreen, glabrous perennial, forming a fresh green 
mat. Stems creeping, much branched, barren shoots many, ascending, i to 2 
inches long, flowering shoots a little taller. Leaves on barren shoots crowded, 
linear, blunt, terete, spreading, spurred, | to J inch long, usually in 6 spiral rows ; 
those of flowering shoots similar, less crowded. Inflorescence a flat- topped 
cyme i to 2 inches across, of 3 branches with a flower in the fork. Buds ovate, 
acute. Flowers | inch across. Sepals green, lanceolate, blunt, lobes longer than the 
tube, persistent in fruit. Petals yellow, linear-lanceolate, acute, wide-spreading, 
twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, spreading, shorter than the petals. Scales 
Fig. 155. — 5. sexangulare Linn. 
small, yellow. Carpels yellow, erect, tapering into the styles, equalling the 
stamens, spreading in fruit. 
Flowers July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Widespread in Europe. Naturalized in some places in 
England. 
The specific name refers to the arrangement of the leaves in six 
rows. 
130. Sedum rupestre Linn. (figs. 156, 16^, a). 
S. rupestre Linn., "Species Plantarum," 431, 1753. Baker in Card. 
Chron. 1877, ii- 307- Masters, ibid., 1878, ii. 658. 
Synonyms. — 5. e/e^'aws, Lejeune, " Flore de Spa," 1,205, 1811. S. pruinatum 
of many British and Continental authors (not of Brotero, for which see p. 277). 
