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lanceolate, acuminate, wide-spreading, hairy on the outside, 3 to''4 times' the 
sepals. Stamens 5, slightly shorter than the petals, filaments white, anthers 
red. Scales small, white, cuneate. Carpels white or reddish, compressed, 
glandular-hairy or smooth, equalling the stamens, at first erect, wide-spreading 
in fruit. 
Flowers July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Europe, N. Africa, Canaries. 
Rarely seen in cultivation. My specimens came from Wisley, 
where they were raised from seed supplied by M. Correvon (as 5. 
litioreum) . 
In the rock-garden at Wisley a curious plant sows itself annually, 
which has all the characters of S. rubens except that the flowers have 
usually six petals and twelve stamens. In these characters it agrees 
with S. hispanicum ; but its stouter, more woody stems, stouter 
carpels not patent in fruit, and shorter styles, as well as its general 
appearance, belong to 5. rubens. It may possibly be hybrid, and 
its carpels and styles sometimes vary towards hispanicum ; but on 
the whole its characters are those of a hexapetalous dodecandrous 
5. rubens. 
149. Sedum annuum Linn. (fig. 182). 
S. annuum Linn. "Species Plant.," 432, 1753. 
Synonym. — S. saxatile De Candolle, " Flore de France," 4, 394. 
Illustrations. — De Candolle, " Plant. Succ," tab. 119. " Flora Danica," 
tab. 59. Sibthorp, " Flora Graeca," tab. 450. Reichenbach, " Flor. German.," 
23, tab. 54. Cusin and Ansberque, " Herb. Flor. Fran9aise, Crassul.," tab. 54. 
Mutel, " Flor. Fran9aise," tab. 19. 
A tiny yellow-flowered annual of no horticultural value, 
recognizable by its much-branched habit. 
Description. — A small, much-branched annual (sometimes biennial). Stem 
smooth, round, greyish, much branched, the branches bifid or trifid half-way up 
or more, i to 3 inches long, with a flower in the forks. Flowers many, small, 
yellow, borne laxly along the branches. Buds ovate, blunt. Leaves oblong- 
linear, i inch long, alternate, smooth, blunt, sessile, slightly spurred, pale green, 
in section elliptic, straight or recurved, crowded on the young shoots, distant on 
flowering shoots. Sepals resembling the leaves, oblong-lanceolate, very fleshy, 
very blunt, unequal, not spurred, fused in the lower half. Petals broadly lanceo- 
late or oblanceolate, acute, yellow, twice the sepals. Stamens yellow, wide- 
spreading, J the petals. Scales oblong, greenish. Carpels at first erect, soon 
spreading, equalling the stamens, greenish yellow, in fruit stellate and surrounded 
by the persistent, fleshy sepals. 
Flowers June-July. Hardy. 
Habitat. — Europe, Asia Minor, Greenland. 
Received from Mr. E. A. Bowles, collected in the Alps in 1914. 
Seen also at Kew (seed from Lund Botanic Garden, 1916) and at 
Wisley (seed from Correvon, 191 6). 
150. Sedum Leblancae Hamet (figs. 183, 184). 
S. Leblancae Hamet in Fedde, " Repertorium Sp. Nov.," 8, 311, 1910. 
A Chinese biennial (or annual), and one of the few Sedums 
which possess only five stamens. This, and its Unear-spathulate, 
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