SE'DUM TELE'PHIUM. 
COMMON ORPINE STONECROP. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CRASSULACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
2 feet. 
July to Sep. 
Perennial. 
field borders. 
No. 948. 
The meaning of the word Sedum has been ex- 
plained under No. 460. Telephium, is a name 
continued to this plant under the belief that it is the 
Telephium of the ancients; such appellation being 
also employed to distinguish an ulcer of peculiar 
character; but whether the plant was a resemblance 
of, or remedy for, such ulcer is uncertain. 
Our engraving shows two specimens of Sedum 
telephium, which have grown together in the Bir- 
mingham Horticultural Society’s Garden for the 
space of three years. Two miniature sketches also 
are given to explain the habit of each, the one being 
upright, the other decumbent. If small specimens 
of these plants be examined apart they are undis- 
tinguishable ; it is only in juxtaposition, and in 
growth, when the whole plants are seen, that they 
display their prominent differences. These dis- 
tinctions, have continued without variation during 
the whole time they have grown together. 
The upright variety of Sedum telephium has been 
well known to British botanists time out of mind. 
Our oldest writers mention it, but it is not certain 
that the decumbent plant has ever come under 
