Befugium Botanicum.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 243. 
Natural Order Crassulace^. 
Genus Sedum, Linn. 
S. Cep^a {Linn. SjJ. Plant, p. 617). Annua, caulibus elongatis assur- 
gentibus flexuosis, foliis applanatis obovatis obtusis integris rosu- 
larum petiolatis, caulinis sessilibus plerisque oppositis vel ternis, 
floribus copiose paniculatis, petalis albis lanceolatis acuminatis 
sepalis linearibus triplo longioribus. — D. C. Prodr. iii. p. 404. 
S. galioides, All. Ped. ii. p. 120, t. 65, fig. 3. 
Spread all through the South of Europe from Spain to Asia 
Minor. 
Root slender, fibrous, annual. Stems csespitose, and a foot or 
more long wlien luxuriant, assurgent, flexuose, glabrous or 
pubescent. Leaves pale green, fleshy in texture, flattened on 
both sides ; of the barren rosettes obovate, with a distinct 
petiole ; of the stem narrower, mostly oblanceolate, often sub- 
acute, usually in opposite pairs or in threes, rarely scattered, 
twelve to eighteen lines long, sessile. Flowers in a copious 
panicle, the ultimate branches racemose or subcorymbose. 
Pedicels slender, one to three lines long, rarely bracteated. 
Calyx half a line deep, the se^jals linear. Corolla white, an 
eighth of an inch deep, with five lanceolate acuminate petals. 
Stamens ten, nearly as long as the petals, the anthers pink. 
Carpels white, when mature as long as the petals. Hypogynous 
scales subquadrate, emarginate. 
Tab. 243. — 1, flower complete; 2, the same fully expanded; 3, an 
anther ; 4, the carpels : all magnified. — J. G. B. 
Another annual species of Sedum, of no floricultural interest. 
It is straggling in habit and seeds very freely. I find these 
annual Sedums, if placed in a proper position, will appear year 
after year, in or near the same spot, from self-sown seeds, and 
only requiring for their continuance that the young plants should 
not be rooted up as weeds. I am indebted to my friend the late 
Wm. Borrer, of Henfield, for the seeds of this plant. — W. W. S. 
