Sedum album. White-flowered SiOnecrop. 
SEDUM Linxi Gen. PI. Decandria Pentagynia. 
Cul. 5 fidus. Cor. 5-petala. Squamee neftariferse J, ad bafm germinis. Caps. 5. 
Raii Syn. Gen. 17. Herbas multisieiou.e seu corniculate. 
SEDUM album foliis oblongis obtufis teretiufculis feffilibus patentibus, cyma ramofa. Lim. Syjl. 
Vegetab. p. 359. Sp. PI. p. 6 19. FI. Suecic. 1 53. 
SEDUM caule glabro, foliis teretibus ; umbellis ramofis ; floribus petiolatis. Haller hijl. heh. n. 959. 
SEDUM album. Scopoli FI. Carn. p. 324. 
SEDUM minus teretifolium album. Bauhin. p. 283. 
SEDUM minus officinarum. Gerard emac. 512. 
VERMICULARIS five craffula minor vulgaris. Parkinfm 734. Raii Syn. 271. Hudfon FI. Angi p. 
iyi. Oeder. FI. Dan. Icon. 66. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa. | 
CAULES flexuofe fuper muros repent, dein eriguntur, | 
triunciales circiter, foliofi, rubri. | 
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FOLIA feflilia, oblonga et fere cylindracea, obtufa, non | 
admodum conferta, patentia, carnofa, glabra, $ 
faspius rubicunda. | 
INFLORESCENTIA : Flores petiolati, in Cymam ra- | 
mofam confertam difpofiti. | 
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C AT. VX : Perianthium pentaphyllum, foliolis brevi- | 
bus, obtufis, fg. i. | 
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COROLLA : Petala quinque alba, acuminata, linea | 
longitudinali rubra fiepius notata, fg. z. ^ 
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NECTARIUM glandula minima fquamiformis ad bafin ¥ 
finguli Germinis, fg. 6. | 
STAMINA: Filamenta decem alba, fg. z, 3; An- $ 
thera: rubras. | 
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PISTILLUM : Germina quinque, in Stylos totidem ¥ 
acuminatos delinentia ; Stigmata fimplicia, | 
fg- 4, 5- t 
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PERICARPIUM : Capsula: quinque minimae acumi- | 
natae introrfum dehifcentes, fg. 7. ? 
SEMINA parva, oblonga, fg. 8. 
ROOT perennial and fibrous. 
STALKS creep on the walls in a crooked form, then. 
grow upright, about three inches high, leafy, 
and red. 
LEAVES feflile, oblong and almofl: cylindrical, obtufe, 
but thinly placed on the ftalk, fpreading, 
fleflry, fmooth, and generally of a reddiih colour. 
INFLORESCENCE : Flowers ftanding on foot-ftalks, 
and difpofed in a thick branched Cyma. 
CALYX: a Perianthium of five leaves, which are 
fhort and obtufe, fg. 1 . 
COROLLA : five white Petals, acuminated and gene- 
rally marked with a longitudinal red ftreak, 
fg- 2. 
NECTARY a very minute fquamiform gland at the bafe 
of each of the Germina, fg. 6 . 
STAMINA: ten white Filaments, fg. 2, 3; An- 
ther a: deep red. 
PISTILLUM : five Germina, terminating in fo many 
acuminated Styles ; the Stigmata fimple, 
fig- 4, 5- 
SEED-VESSEL: five fmall acuminated Capsules, 
opening inwardly, fg. 7. 
SEEDS fmall and oblong, fg. 8. 
The Sedum album may be confidered with us as rather a fcarce plant ; it is found here and there on the 
Walls about Town, particularly on the Chapel-wall in Kentf-I’o'wn, where it has grown for many years ; alfo 
upon a Wall on the left-hand fide leading from Bromley to Bromley -Hall , in Mlddlefex. It has been thought to 
poflefs fufficient beauty to recommend it as a garden plant, and is accordingly, with very little trouble, cultivated in 
many of the gardens of the curious, nothing more being necefl'ary than placing it in a pot filled with gravel or 
mould : in fuch a fituation it will grow, flourifh, and propagate itfelf very faft. 
It has been called album from the colour of its flowers, which generally however have a tinge of red in them. It 
flowers in July. The round and oblong fhape of its leaves readily diflinguiflies it from our other Stonecrops. 
Haller informs us that it poflefles all the virtues of the large Houfcleek, and that he has ufed the juice of 
it in uterine haemorrhages, but does not inform us with what fuccefs. By way of cataplafm it is applied to the 
piles when in a painful firate, and is faid to have fometimes been made the fame ufe of in cancers with fuccefs. 
By fome it is eaten as a pickle. 
