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JJecandria. 
Ar. Verna , Vernal Sandwort ; with bluntisli awl- 
shaped leaves, obovate petals longer than the three- 
nerved calyx ; perennial ; continues in flower from 
May to August, and is a native of mountainous dis- 
tricts, as on Arthur’s Seat, near Edinburgh, and 
about the mouths of lead-mines in Derbyshire. 
Order IV. Pentagynia. 
Sedum. Gen . char . — Cal. five cleft ; cor. five- 
petaled ; five nectariferous scales at the base of the 
germen ; capsules five, superior. 
Sed. Ao~e, Biting Stone- crop, or Wall Pepper ; 
with alternate, subovate, fleshy, gibbous leaves,, and 
trifid leafy cymes ; perennial ; flowers in June, and is 
very common on walls, houses, and sandy places. 
Sed. Villosum , Hairy Stone-crop ; with alternate 
linear, somewhat plain, leaves ; slightly hairy foot- 
stalks, and upright stem. Perennial; flowers in July, 
and is found in moist elevated pastures, as in the 
northern counties of England, and on the banks of the 
water of Leith, near its sources in the Pentland hills, 
in Scotland, where it traverses Mr Linning’s lands of 
Colzium. 
Oxalis Acetosella, Common Wood Sorrel. Cab 
five-leaved ; petals five, united by the claws ; caps, 
superior, five-celled, opening at the angles ; seeds 
enclosed in an elastic covering; stem one-flowered; 
leaves ternate, obcordate, hairy. Perennial ; flow era 
in May, and is common in shady woods., 
