ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 299 
Of the plants raised, one flowered in the first year and then 
died. In this the flowers had only five stamens, and the in- 
florescence proved abnormal, being very lax and leafy, with 
large flowers. The rest flowered in the following season, and the 
flowers examined had ten stamens. Misled by this, I described the 
plant as new (as above). Further examination of this material 
shows that the number of stamens in the flowers is not constant. 
As the stamens in the type material and in other gatherings in the 
Edinburgh Herbarium (which like the type are of Maire's gather- 
ing about Tong-tchouan) are five, it appears, that my specimens 
were exceptional. 
Named after Dr. Somen. 
B. Teretifolia. 
145. Sedum hispanicum Linn. (fig. 178). 
5. hispanicum Linn., "Cent. Plant.," 1, 12, 1755; "Amoen. Acad.," 
4, 273, 1759. 
Synonyms. — S. glaucum Waldstein and Kitaibel, " Plant. Rar. Hungar." 
Boissier, " Flor. Orient.," 2, 789. Masters in Gard. Chron. 1878, ii. 685. 
S. sexfidum, M. von Bieberstein, " Flor. Taurico-Caucas.," 1, 354. 
Illu.strations. — Reichenbach, " Flor. German.," 23, tab. 51. Sibthorp, 
" Flora Graeca," 5, tab. 449, Jacquin, " Flor. Austriac. Icones," 5 (appendix), 
tab. 47. Waldst. and Kit, loc. cit. tab. 181. Hallier, " Flor. Deutschland," 26, 
pl. 2643. 
The type is well marked by its annual duration, pinkish-glaucous 
colour, and pinkish-white flowers with the parts in sixes. The plant, 
however, is polymorphic, and varies as regards size, duration, hairiness, 
and the number of the floral parts — see below. 
Description. — Generally annual, appearing in autumn or spring and 
flowering in June ; sometimes biennial ; two varieties perennial. A small, 
pinkish-glaucous plant, 2 to 6 inches high. Stems branched below, branches 
ascending, leafy, more or less hairy. Leaves sessile, linear to oblong-lanceolate, 
rather acute, glaucous, often reddish, fleshy, flattened, sometimes subterete, 
^ to I inch long by \ inch broad. Inflorescence a loose, leafy, flattish cyme. Buds 
ovate, acute, ribbed. Flowers \ inch across, usually 6-merous, sometimes 4-, 5-, or 
up to 9-merous. Calyx short, green, teeth triangular, acute. Petals white, very 
acute, wide-spreading, 4 times the sepals, keeled on back, nerve red. Stamens 
shorter than the petals, filaments white, anthers purple. Scales whitish, cuneate, 
strongly emarginate. Carpels erect, often red, smooth or hairy ; style long, curving 
outwards ; fruit stellate-patent. 
Flowers June. Hardy. 
Habitat. — From Switzerland eastward to Persia. 
Carpels sometimes glabrous (var. leiocarpum Boissier, "Flor. 
Orient.," 2, 789), sometimes more or less hairy (var. eriocarpum Boissier, 
loc. cit.). \t starved, as when grown on a wall, it tends to produce 
barren shoots and to lose its annual character, thus approaching var. 
hithynicum Boissier, loc. cit. 
Var. polypetalum Boissier, "Flor. Orient.," 2, 789 (fig. 178, a). 
Petals 7 to 9, and other floral organs in proportion ; sepals 
lanceolate. 
