SE'DUM KAMTSCHAT'KIA, 
KAMTSCHATKIA STONECROP. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CUASSULACE M. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Kamtseha. 
8 inches- 
June, July 
Perennial. 
in 1846 
No. 1155. 
The habit of most of the Sedums justifies this 
name from the Latin sedeo, to sit. It is not alone 
from their apparently resting on their place of 
growth, but from the fact that they do so, inasmuch 
as they cannot grow into stones and tiles, which 
they frequently adopt as their places of vegetation, 
both in our own and hotter climates. 
This species of Sedum, which appears to have 
been lately introduced, we received from Mr. Moore, 
of Perry Bar, near Birmingham, under the name 
here adopted. It is a hardy and ornamental plant, 
deserving attention as a border ornament. These 
fleshy or succulent plants are not alone singular, 
but interesting, and we cannot reflect on their tena 
city of life, in those arid and scorching situations 
in which many of them are usually found, without 
recognising a striking peculiarity in their conforma- 
tion, and power of retaining fluids. The generality 
of plants, when exposed to a dry situation, lose 
their moisture, wither, and die. But not so with 
our Sedums, Semperviums, Aloes, and others of 
this class, called Succulents. They have a life- 
preserver wrapped about them — not a protector 
