SE'DUM AL'BUM. 
WHITE STONECROP. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CRASSCLACE^. 
Native'of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
England. 
3 inches. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
Rocks. 
No. 1006. 
The name, Sedum, is founded on the Latin sedeo, 
to set ; a term whicli has been adopted from the 
position of the plant on stones and rocks. 
The Sedums belong to a section of those fleshy 
or succulent plants, which grow in rocky places, 
or other dry situations where vegetable life could 
scarcely be supposed to exist ; indeed, they could 
not do so but for a peculiar provision of nature, 
enabling these live-evers, as they are sometimes 
called, to withstand the effects of heat in an 
extraordinary degree. The Sedum acre will fre- 
quently be seen covering the tiles of a cottage, 
growing luxuriantly, and becoming, in summer, 
one close caiqiet of softened yellow’; luxuriating 
for weeks without moisture, and in a temperature 
w’hich would scorch up and destroy all plants but 
those peculiarly adapted to the vicissitudes they 
are intended to encounter. 
The Sedum album, which we now figure, is 
equally w’ell suited to withstand the effects of 
drought ; and grown amongst stones, in the most 
arid and di^j’ situation, it not only lives but luxu- 
riates Its cylindrical fleshy leaves are the reser- 
