SE'DUM OPPOSITIFOLIUM. 
OPPOSITE-LEAVED STONECROP. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CRASSULACEjE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
S. Europe. 
6 inches. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1795. 
No. 460. 
The Latin word, sedere, to sit, constitutes the 
root of the generic name Sedum. It is intended to 
apply to the close manner of the growth of the plants 
of this genus on their native rocks. This is the 
Anacampseros ciliaris of Hayworth’s Arrangement 
of Succulent Plants. 
The Sedum oppositi folium should not be dispen- 
sed with in any garden where there is a stone to 
place it against. There are certain associations in 
the minds of men, by which they are governed, often 
imperceptibly, but still the fact exists. With our- 
selves, Sedums and stones are so completely inse- 
parable, that to plant them in the common borders, 
would seem to be setting all propriety at defiance. 
No situation would, we believe, prove destructive 
to this plant, for we have exposed it to extremes of 
wet and dry, to sun and shade; but never observed 
it fail. In flower, and out of flower, it is healthy 
and ornamental. 
This plant may be divided at the root; and in- 
crease may be encouraged, if required, by confining 
the branches to the soil, and adding a little light 
compost about them. 
Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 1807. 
