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grandifloruni, hispanicum, Hildehrandtii, ihericum, Jacquini, lividum, 
montanum, portulacoides , pruinatum, stoloniferum, Verloti. 
I have cultivated about a hundred plants of this species, from 
gardens in most parts of Europe, including many selected forms from 
British gardens. This large series showed a considerable and con- 
tinuous range of variation as regards size (from very robust forms down 
to others indistinguishable without flower from S. anopetalum) and 
colour (from glaucous to quite green). The species varies also as 
regards the character from which it takes its name — the' refiexed 
leaves on the flowering stems, these being often straight. The colour 
of the flowers in the cultivated forms appears to be always normal — 
a fine yellow. 
Var. albescens Haworth, "Revis. Succ." 28, which figures in British 
floras, is described as having the leaves glaucous, those of the flowering 
shoots not refiexed, plant smaller and leaves more slender, and flowers 
pale yellow. In the last character alone does it seem to differ from 
all of my garden forms, many of which showed some of these characters, 
and several all of them except the last. 
Many other varieties are described. Baker, in his account of 
the Sedums of the rupesire group (Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 461), includes 
vars. collinum, virens, albescens, minus, recurvaium, septangulare, 
virescens, and cristatum, and RouY and Camus (" Flore de France," 
7, 109) give adpressum, collinum, recurvatum, graniiicum, reflexum 
Briq., arrigens, Smithianum, albescens, and caesium j but a series 
such as that in my garden disillusions one as to the value of these, 
except so far as, in the native state, they may represent local races, 
and be of interest geographically. For garden purposes the only 
one requiring mention is 
Monstr. cristatum of gardens (fig. 158), 
a fasciate form long in cultivation, and one of the most curious 
of Sedums, the flattened stems often being 2 inches broad. In 
this condition it never flowers, but normal shoots are frequently 
produced, and these flower freely if allowed to develop. 
132. Sedum altissimum Poiret (figs. 159, 164, d). 
S. altissimum Poiret, "Encycl.," 4, 634, 1796. 
Synonyms. — S. ochroleucum Villar (not of Chaix, which = anopetalum), 
Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 307. S. acutifolium of gardens (not of Ledebour, 
which is a white-flowered Caucasian species allied to album, and not in cultiva- 
tion). S. rufescens Tenore. 
Illustrations.* — Jacquin, "Hort. Vindob.," 1, tab. 81 (as Sempervivum sedi- 
forme). De Candolle, " Plantes Grasses," tab. 40. Tenore, " Flor. Napol.," 
tab. 41. Reichenbach, " Icon. Crit.," 3, 285. Cusin and Ansberque, " Herb. 
Flor. Fran9aise, Crassul.," tab. 32. 
5. altissimum most resembles, on the whole, S. reflexum, from which 
it may be distinguished by its leaves distinctly flattened (not terete) 
and lanceolate (not linear) in outline, by its taller flowering shoot§ 
