ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 27I 
which are erect (not drooping) in bud, and by its whitish (not bright 
yellow) flowers. The leaves are more conspicuously acute than in 
any other species of the section, and end in a little, thorn-like point. 
In the pecuHar greenish-white tint of the flowers it matches S. ano- 
petalum, as also in its acute leaves and inflorescence erect in bud ; but 
the latter has leaves and flower stems of only half the length, the 
leaves are hnear and terete, and the inflorescence flat, not sub- 
globular, in bud. 
The plant varies much in size and colour, from robust forms with 
flower stems two feet high bearing leaves up to ij inch long, to 
Fig. 158. — Sedum reflexum var. cristatum. 
quite dwarf forms rising only to 6 inches ; and as regards colour from 
pale green or dark green to fine purple-glaucous. The large forms 
include var. latifolium of Rouy and Camus, " Flore de France," 
7, 108, which is also the S. nicaeense of AUioni, " Flor. Pedemont." 
ii. 122, iii. tab. 90, fig. i ; S. coerulescens Haworth in Phil. Mag., 66, 
172, 1825, is a small purple-glaucous form. 
Description. — Evergreen perennial, glabrous, usually glaucous. Roots 
fibrous. Stems decumbent, woody and rooting below, with ascending branches. 
Barren shoots many, very leafy, 3-6 inches high. Flowering stems ^ to 2 feet 
high, unbranched, very erect. Leaves of the barren stems alternate, i to | inch 
long by^^^'to ^ inch wide, flattened, especially on face, linear-lanceolate, acute, 
spine-pointed, sessile, slightly spurred : those of the flower-stems similar but 
larger, up to by J inch, more distant, smaller upward. Inflorescence a com- 
pact, leafless, subglobose cyme of several forked branches with a flower in the 
forks, erect and globose in bud, very hollow and obconical in fruit. Buds oblong, 
very blunt, strongly ribbed, ribs greenish. Flowers ^ inch across, sessile or nearly 
so, mostly 5-merous. Sepals green, fleshy, ovate, acute, tube short. PetaJs 
2j times the sepals, boat-shaped, keeled, oblong-lanceolate, broadest near the 
