ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 30I 
Var. minus, var. nov.* (fig. 178, b). 
Perennial. Smaller in all its parts, with many crowded barren 
shoots densely clothed with glaucous leaves J inch long, flowering 
stems about 2 inches high, floral parts in sixes, carpels hairy. 
This is the small, glaucous form long used for carpet-bedding under 
the name of S. glaucum or 5. Lydium glaucum. The latter name, 
though erroneous, is apt, as out of flower the plant much resembles 
a glaucous S. Lydium. Quite perennial. There is a form of it with 
yellowish foliage, known in gardens as S. Lydium aureum. Though 
long in cultivation and most distinct, this plant appears to be 
undescribed. I have no information as to its native habitat. 
Regarding the S, Wightmannianum, or S. Whitmanni of gardens," 
of which an incomplete description is given by Masters (Gard. Chron. 
1878, ii. 751), I have no information ; the names do not appear to be 
found in gardens now. His " 5. Witmanni of some gardens " (p. 685) 
refers to S. hispanicum / and as in the index to his paper Witmanni 
is corrected to Whitmanni, the presumption is that all three names 
represent that species. 
Not infrequent in gardens, mostly as 5. glaucum. The oldest 
name, hispanicum, is not an appropriate one, as the plant does not 
occur in Spain, though originally believed to do so. 
146. Sedum villosum Linn. (fig. 179). 
S. villosum Linn., " Species Plantarum," 432, 1753. 
Illustrations. — Sowerby, " English Bot." ed. 3, pi. 538. Reichenbach, 
" Flor. German.," 23, tab. 52. De CandoUe, " Plantes Grasses," tab. 70. 
Hallier, " Flor. Deutschland," 26, pi. 2644. Cusin and Ansberque, " Herb. 
Flor. Fran9aise, CrassuL," tab. 16. Zenker, " Flor. Thuringen," 8, tab. 876. 
A small downy biennial, with fleshy, linear-oblong leaves and 
small pink flowers, and stems usually much branched near the base. 
Description. — Biennial, downy. Stem erect, red, downy, leafy, 2 to 6 inches 
high, usually emitting ascending branches below, some of which flower. Leaves 
alternate, linear-oblong, blunt, downy, sessile, not spurred, fleshy, flat above, 
rounded below, J to ^ inch long. Inflorescence a lax, corymbose cyme with erect 
branches. Buds ovate, blunt. Flowers J inch across, shorter than the pedicels. 
Sepals very fleshy, lanceolate, blunt, hairy. Petals pale purple, ovate, apiculate, 
twice the sepals, with a hairy back and often a purple keel, concave longitudinally 
and transversely. Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments white, anthers dull 
purple. Scales small, yellowish, emarginate. Carpels bright green, oblong, erect, 
shorter than the stamens ; styles short. 
Flowers June-July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — From Greenland and Iceland across Europe to Serbia 
and Algeria. Frequent on damp roadsides in many districts in 
Scotland and N. England. 
A little biennial plant of no horticultural interest, and seldom 
seen in gardens. It is very exceptional among Sedums in inhabiting 
* Planta perennis, in omnibus partibus quam typo minor ; caules steriles 
plurimi, conferti, foliis glaucis 6 mm. longis dense tecti ; caules floriferi 5 cm. alti. 
Flores 6-meri, carpellis hirsutis. 
