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obtuse tip, greenish-white, wide-spreading. Stamens slightly exceeding the 
petals, spreading, filaments greenish, anthers yellow. Scales small, quadrate, 
greenish. Carpels erect, slender, greenish, equalling the petals. 
Flowers July- August. Hardy. 
Habitat.— S. Europe, N. Africa, Asia Minor. A familiar plant 
round almost the whole of the Mediterranean basin. 
It is suitably named altissimum (very tall), the flower-stems 
being usually longer than those of any other member of the rupestre 
group. 
133. Sedum anopetalum DC. (figs. 160, 164, c). 
S. anopetalum De Candolle " Rapports Voyages," 2, 80, 1808. Baker 
in Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 462. Masters, ihid. 1878, ii. 626. 
Synonyms. — S. elongatum of gardens (not of Wallich, for which see p. 41). 
S. ochroleucum of Chaix (not of Villar, which = altissimum, see p. 270). 
Illustrations. — De Candolle, " M6m. Crassul.," pi. 8. Reichenbach, 
" Flor. German.," 23, tab. 59. Cusin and Ansberque, " Herb. Flor. Fran9aise, 
Crassul.," tab. 33. 
A species well marked when in flower, but without flower often 
impossible to distinguish from small forms of S. reflexum. In bud, 
flower, or fruit it may be known from all other species of the rupestre 
section by its long lanceolate sepals, which in fruit have the outer 
face concave. It differs from rupestre in its almost terete (not flat) 
leaves, and from both reflexum and rupestre in its inflorescence erect . 
in bud. In this latter respect it agrees with altissimum, but that 
species has lanceolate (not linear), flattened, larger leaves. The 
flowers of anopetalum are usually whitish, like those of altissimum ; 
but bright-yellow forms, as in reflexum and rupestre, are not uncommon. 
The inflorescence remains flat in bud, flower, and fruit, while in reflexum, 
rupestre, and altissimum it is very convex in bud and very concave in 
fruit. 
Description. — A glabrous, evergreen perennial, creeping, forming a low 
green or glaucous mat often tinged red. Stems many, much branched and 
rooting below, with ascending barren and flowering shoots, the former i to 4 inches, 
the latter 6 to 9 inches high. Leaves of barren shoots crowded, ascending, f inch 
long, linear, apiculate, slightly flattened above, slightly spurred at base, some- 
times arranged in 6 or more rows ; those of the flowering stems larger, | inch 
long, more distant, more distinctly spurred. Inflorescence a flat compact cyme 
about I inch across, of about 5 forked branches with a central flower, leafy, 
flattish, and erect in bud and in fruit. Buds ovate-oblong, ribbed, acute. Flowers 
f inch long. Sepals long, lanceolate, green, erect, acute, separate nearly to the 
base, persistent in fruit, when they have a median depression. Petals narrowly 
lanceolate, acute, keeled, grooved on face, erect or spreading, seldom widely 
open, whitish, rarely bright yellow, twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, equalling 
the petals. Scales small, whitish. Carpels shorter than the petals, slightly 
shorter than the stamens, erect, greenish, erect also in fruit j styles divergent. 
Flowers June- July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Central and Southern Europe from Spain eastward j 
Asia Minor. 
Among some fifty selected plants of anopetalum in my garden, 
derived from as many sources, native and cultivated, the following 
variations are noticeable : (i) size, from small forms with barren 
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