SE'DUM SPU'RIUM. 
SPURIOUS SEDUM. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CRASSULACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Caucasus. 
4 inches. 
August. 
Perennial. 
in 1816. 
No. 601. 
The name of this genus has arisen from the ge- 
neral habit of the plants it contains : they oftentimes 
spread upon rocks and dry places, where their roots 
cannot insinuate themselves ; hence they may be 
said to sit upon, instead of grow into, the matter 
beneath them. This circumstance is alluded to in 
the word Sedum, from the Latin sedeo, to sit. 
Low succulent plants, like the present, are re- 
markably ornamental when planted on artificial 
rock-work ; they maintain their vitality and verdure 
unimpaired in the open garden, even when the chill 
breath of winter has congealed the subtle fluids, 
and destroyed all the grandeur of its loftier neigh- 
bours. The presence of a proportion of evergreen 
plants is as indispensable in the open herbaceous 
parterre as in the shrubbery. The winter appear- 
ance of the flower garden should always have its 
due proportion of attention; and it is by such plants 
as the Sedums, Saxifrages, and numerous other, 
similarly hardy evergreen subjects, that it may be 
relieved from barrenness and aridity. We have 
oftentimes alluded to the advantages presented by 
masses of artificial rock-work, and also by stone 
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