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broader leaves marked with dark red, scarlet (not rose-coloured) 
flowers, &c. Like pilosum, it is a biennial and comes from the 
Caucasus. The crimson flowers are unique among cultivated Sedums. 
Description. — Biennial, pubescent, with the habit of a Sempervivum. 
First-year stems very short, producing a single leaf -rosette, i to 2 inches across 
Fig. 165. — S. sempervivoides Fischer. 
in second year lengthening to 6 to 12 inches and flowering, stout, downy, red, leafy, 
unbranched save at top. Leaves ovate, acute, sessile, very fleshy, purplish, 
pubescent, ciliate, densely imbricated on the first-year stems, alternate and 
distant on the flowering stems. Inflorescence a large, rather loose, leafy panicle, 
2 to 4 inches across, with bracts resembling the leaves. Flowers J inch long, 
^ inch across, 5-parted, pedicels equalling the flowers. Sepals erect, red, fleshy, 
hairy, ovate, acute, separate nearly to the base. Petals bright crimson, 
lanceolate, acute, erect below, curving outwards above, hairy on back, 2| times 
the sepals. Stamens erect, crimson, nearly twice the sepals. Scales small, 
