Sedum sexangul are. insipid Stonecrop. 
SEDUM "Lin. Gen. PL Decandria Pentagynia, 
Cd. 5 fidus. Cor. 5 petala. Squama nedariferae 5 ad bafin germinis. Caps. 5. 
Ran Syn. Gen. 17. Herb.® multisiliqu® seu corniculat®. 
SEDUM fexangulare foliis fubovatis adnato feflilibus gibbis erediufculis fexfariam imbricatis. Lin - 
Syji. Vegetab. p. 359. Spec. Plant, p. 620. FI. Suecic. n 404. 
SEDUM foliis teretibus, ternatisl caulibus fimplicibus trifidis. Haller, hjfi. n. 965. 
SEDUM fexangulare. Scopoli FI. Carn. n. 558. 
SEMPERVIVUM minus vermiculatum infipidum. Bauhin. pin. 284. 
SEDUM minimum luteum non acre. Bauhin. hifi. 3. p. 695. Hudfon FI. Angi. ed. 1. p. 172. 
RADIX perennis, fibrofa. | ROOT perennial and fibrous. 
CAULES bafi repentes, floriferi eredi, tripollicares et | STALKS creeping at the bafe, thofe which produce 
ultr.i, teretes, glabri, pundati, inferne nudi, f flowers about three inches or more in h ight, 
rubentes. | round, fmooth, dotted, below naked and of 
$ a reddifh colour. 
FOLIA oblonga, carnofa, teretiufcula, obtufa, eredo- | LEAVES oblong, flefhy, roundifh, obtufe, upright, 
patentia, fexfariam imbricata, prefertim ante | but bending a little outward, plat\ d one ever 
florefeentiam, rigidula, adnato- feffilia, in- $ another in fix rows, efpecially before he 
feme rubentia, fuperne caulibus faltem flori- | bloffoms open, fomewhat rigid, feffile, as if 
feris e flavo viridia, infipida. | Ruck to the ftalk, thofe 011 the lower part 
I of the ftera of a reddifh colour, on the upper 
I part yellowifh, at leaft on the flowering 
T ftalks, iufipid. 
CYMA plerumque trifida, floribus in fingulo ramulo | CYMA generally divided into three branches on each 
tnbus ad quinque, feflilibus. | of which are placed from three to five flow- 
| ers, without footftalks. 
CALYX: Perianthium quinquepartitum, laciniis | CALYX: a Peri anti-iium divided into five fegments 
obtufis, carnofis, bafi tenuioribus. 4 which are obtufe, flefhy, and flenderer at tta 
I bale. 
COROLLA : Petala quinque, flava, lanceolata, acu- J COROLLA : five yellow Petals, lance-fhaped, acu- 
minata, calyce duplo longiora, patentia, fig. 2. | minated, Ipreading, twice the length of the 
I calyx, fig. 2. 
STAMINA: Filamenta decem, fabulata, longitu- J STAMINA: ten Filaments, tapering the length 
dine corolla: ; Anther* fubrotunda;, flaref- T of the corolla; Anther* roundifh and of 
centes. fig. 3. 4. _ | a yellowifh colour, fig. 4 . 
PISTILLUM: Germina quinque, ereda, oblonga, 'i PISTILLUM: Germina fire, upright, oblong ter- 
deftnentia in Stylos tenuiores; Stigmata | minating m flender Styles:’ Stigmata 
fimphcia. fig. 5. J fimple. fig. j. 
In Dillenius's edition of Ray's Spvopfis this plant is omitted, and not confidered even as a variety of the 
Scium acre. Mr. Hudson, in the firft edition of his Flora Atiglica , introduced it as a diftinft fpecies, in which 
he followed the opinion of Linnjeus ; in his lad edition, without afligning any reafon, he makes it a variety of 
the Sedum acre ; Haller, however, and Scopoli confirm Linnjeus’s opinion, and on fuch authority we Jurely 
may differ from Mr. Hudson. 7 7 
The conflant want of that biting tafte which gives the name of Wall Pepper to the Sedum acre , has been con- 
fidered by many of our Englifh Botanifts fufficient to conftuute this a diftind fpecies ; for though acrid plants 
may fometimes become mild, as in the Hydropiper , yet inftances of that kind very rarely occur, but it is not in 
its tafte alone that the Jexangulare differs from the acre, in its leaves we fhall find a fatisfadory difference, on 
comparing thefe together as they grow on the flowenng ftems of both plants, we find thofe of the acre fhort, 
broad at the bafe, and at a confiderable diftance afunder, vid. fig. i. while thofe of the Jexangulare are nearly of the 
fame thicknels. throughout, longer, and more numerous, vid. fig. i. we may alfo add, that they are in general 
much redder, in the young fhoots of the fexangulare the leaves form fix rows or angles, which are fometimes 
ftraight and fometimes oblique ; no traces of which are vifible in the acre; another circumftance which adds 
fome weight to the foregoing is, that the acre flowers a fortnight fooner than the fexangulare; the parts of the 
frudification afford little or no difference, indeed a great famenefs in this refped runs through the w hole a e nus. 
We, find this plant growing plentifully on Greenwich-park-w'all, the fouth fide, near the Weftern cornerf 
It flowers about the latter end of June. 
