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crowded, not having any fpace between them, the edge?, 
efpecially of the young ones, very finely crenulated, and 
by no means oblique as in that. 
11. Craflula cultrata, or (harp-leaved craffula : leaves 
oppofite, obovate, fubcultrate, 1 oblique, connate, quite 
entire. This rifes with a weak fucculent Italic about 
two feet high, fending out many irregular branches; 
leaves thick, plane above but convex beneath, deep 
green, the borders fet with a few filvery hairs; the (talk 
which fupports the flowers riles from the top of the 
branches, and is from four to fix inches long, putting 
out feveral fide branches, which grow eredt; thefe are 
terminated by large dufters of (mall greenilh flowers, 
which appear in June and July. The flower never ex- 
pands; cultivated in the Elthamgarden in, 1732, or earlier. 
12. CralTula cotyledon, or tree craffula : leaves round- 
ifh, fiefhy, dotted on the upper furface ; Item arboreous. 
The whole plant is fmooth ; ftern as thick as the wrift, 
round, brownifh ; branches round, greenilh brown; both 
are jointed, the joint above blunt and entering the cavity 
of that below it; leaves diftinbt, oppofite, fubfeflile, fpa- 
tulate, rounded, quite entire, fpreading, glaucous, fpot- 
ted on the upper fide only with great numbers of dark 
green fpots, and having a deep border of purple on the 
edge; fome are very blunt, others have a very fmall 
point. Cultivated in 1739. In the laft edition of Miller’s 
Dictionary, (1768,) he lays it had not then flowered in 
England; it flowered in the imperial garden at Vienna 
in 1778, at the end of April. 
13. Craffula pinnata, or wing-leaved craffula: leaves 
pinnate ; ftem arboreous. Flowers red. Native of China. 
II. Herbaceous. 14. Craffula centauroides, or centory- 
flowered craffula : ftem dichotomous ; leaves fefijle, ob¬ 
long-ovate, cordate, plane ; peduncles axillary, one- 
flowered. 15. Craffula dichotoma, or forked craffula : 
ftem dichotomous ; leaves fellile, ovate-oblong, chan¬ 
nelled, recurved; peduncles axillary, one-flowered. This 
is fcarcely a palm in height; ftem Ample, round, pale 
green, dichotomous at the top ; flowers purple on the 
outfide, golden-coloured within, with a blood-red heart- 
ftiaped fpot at the bottom of each petal. Annual; 
flowering in June and J#.ily. 
16. Craflula glomerata, or cluttered craffula; and its 
varieties, «. with a rough ftalk ; €. with a fmooth (talk : 
ftem dichotomous; leaves lanceolate ; the laft flowers 
fafcicled. Stem a palm in height, eredt, round, pur- 
plifh : annual. It is commonly defcribed as having a 
rough ftalk; this, however, is fometimes fmooth. It 
flowers in June and July. 
17. (iralTula ftrigofa, or narrow-leaved craffula: ftem 
dichotomous, eredt; leaves obovate, ftrigofe ; peduncles 
one-flowered. 18. CralTula mufcofa, or molly craffula : 
ftem proftrate; leaves oppofite, ovate, gibbofe, imbri¬ 
cate ; flowers felfile, folitary. Stems filiform, feldom 
branched, covered with very fmall, feflile, flelhy, blunt- 
ilh, leaves; flowers the moft minute pf all, the length of 
the leaves. 
19. Craffula ciliata, or ciliated craffula : leaves oppo¬ 
fite, oval, flattifh, diftinbt, ciliate ; corymbs terminating. 
Leaves like thofe of houfeleek, only fomewhat fmaller 
and more obtufe, thickly fringed about the edge with 
white hairs. Perennial; flowering in July and Auguft. 
20. Craffula pundtata, or dotted craffula r leaves op¬ 
pofite, ovate, dotted, ciliate; the lower oblong. Stems 
divided, about eight or nine inches long, terminated by 
clufters of fmall white flowers, fitting very clofe to the 
top : thefe appear in fpring, and again in the latter part 
of fummer. — 
21. Craffula fubulata, or awl-leaved craffula: leaves 
Tubulate, columnar, fpreading. Annual. 
22. Craffula alternifolia, or alternate-leaved craffula : 
leaves lerrate-toothed, plane, alternate ; ftem very Am¬ 
ple ; flowers pendulous. Branches two feet long, lax, 
purple, hairy ; leaves drawn to a very long point at the 
end, feflile ; flowers folitary, on fliort peduncles, yellow. 
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23. Craffula rubcns, or hardy annual craffula: leaves 
fcattered, femicyliridric, ijnooth ; flowers lateral, foii- 
tary, fubfeflile; branches villofe. Stem round; branches 
alcending, a finger’s length ; leaves feflile, the thicknefs 
of a hen’s feather, towards the end a little attenuated, 
and there red ; the lower almoll an inch in length, the 
upper gradually fliorter. Native of Swifl'erland and Ita¬ 
ly ; with ns it flowers in May and June. 
24. Craffula verticillaris, or whorl-flowered craffula : 
leaves fpreading ; flowers verticilled, awned. Annual; 
it flowers in July. Native of feuthern Europe. 
25. Craffula nudicaulis, or naked-ltalked craffula : 
leaves Tubulate, radical; ftem naked. This never riles 
with a ftalk, but the leaves come out clofe to the ground, 
forming a fort of head. They are fucculent, taper, end¬ 
ing in points, and frequently put out roots; out of the 
center of thefe arifes the flower-ftalk, branching into 
two or three (boots at the top, each terminated by cluf¬ 
ters of greenilh flowers, which do not open. This fpe- 
cies has been long known in the gardens of the curious. 
It flowers in May, and fometimes again in the latter part 
of fummer. 
2 6. Craffula orbicularis, or ftarry craffula : runners 
proliferous, determinately leafy; leaves very much fpread¬ 
ing, imbricate. This is a low plant, having open fpread¬ 
ing heads very like thofe of fome forts of houleleek, 
growing on the ends of very (lender trailing (talks, pro¬ 
duced in plenty on every fide the parent plant, in like 
manner as the childing marigold. The flower-ftalks 
arife from the center of thefe heads ; they are naked, 
about four inches long, and terminated by clofe clufters 
of herbaceous flowers. Perennial; flowers in July and 
Auguft, fometimes in May. 
27. CralTula pel^ucida, or tranfparent craffula: ftem 
flaccid, creeping ; leaves oppofite. Stems (lender, trail, 
ing, fucculent, of a reddilh colour, and putting out roots 
at the joints. Thefe, and the leaves, have the appear¬ 
ance of purllane. The flowers are produced in fmall 
clufters at the ends of the branches ; they are white, with 
a bluflt of purple at the brim; they appear in fummer 
at different times, and are often followed by feeds. This 
fpecies is common in botanic gardens, both in England 
and abroad. 
28. Craffula columnaris, or upright craffula : ftem 
eredt; leaves connate, orbiculate, ciliate, hemifpheri- 
cally imbricate ; flowers in a head. This, and all the 
foregoing fpecies, are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, 
except a very few, the places of growth of which are let 
dow n. 
III. Species from Linnaeus’s Supplement and Thun- 
berg’s Monographia ; many uncertain whether they are 
Ihrubby or herbaceous. 29. Craffula barbata, or beard¬ 
ed-leaved craffula : leaves connate, orbiculate, bearded, 
hemifpherically imbricate; ftem almoft naked; flowers 
in whorls. Root biennial; ftem (lightly angular, eredt, 
fmooth, a fpan high, nearly the thicknefs of a quill. 
30. -Craffula argentea, or filver-leaved craffula : leaves 
connate, ovate, entire, filvery ; ftem covered ; corymb 
fuperdecompound. Root perennial; ftem flirubby, branch¬ 
ed, a foot or more in height. 
31. Craffula veftita, or clothed craffula: leaves con¬ 
nate, deltoid, obtufe ; ftem covered ; flowers terminating 
in a head. 32. CralTula corallina, or coral-like craflula ; 
leaves connate, deltoid, obtufe ; ftem covered ; flowers 
in an umbel. Thefe refemble feacorallines in the (true- 
ture of the leaves, but are larger. 
33. CralTula retrofiexa, or orange-flowered craffula.: 
leaves connate, oblong, remote ; ftem Ample ; cyme com¬ 
pound ; pedicels bent back at an angle. Root annual; 
ftem filiform, flexuofe-eredt, a finger’s length, fmooth, 
purple. There are three varieties : 1. With orange-co¬ 
loured flowers, larger. 2. With yellow flowers, middle- 
fized. 3. With white flowers, fmaller and more tender. 
34. Cra(Tuladeltoidea,ordeltoid-leavedcraffula: leaves 
connate deltoid : ftem covered ; flowers corymbed. 35. 
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