Plate 56 e 
BEAN-LEAVED OBPINE. 
Sedum Fabciria. 
The species of Sedum represented in the accompanying Plate, 
is a remarkably fine subject for the decoration of greenhouses 
and conservatories during the autumnal months. It forms a 
rival for such a purpose to the well-known Hydrangea, and con¬ 
tinues for a considerable time in beauty. 
The plant is reported to be a native of the mountains of 
central Europe, growing above the limits of our native Sedum 
Telephium. It is no doubt hardy, though under pot-culture, for 
decorative purposes, it may be advisable to place it in winter in 
a frame or orangery, or cold greenhouse, so that it may be kept 
from any disfigurement by rough weather. The first notice of 
it, as a garden plant, which we have met with, occurs in the 
4 Gardeners’ Chronicle ’ for 1857 (p. 660), where it is noticed in 
the following terms :— 44 The Sedum Telejpliium is a well-known 
hardy half-succulent perennial plant, with pale purple flowers, 
an erect fleshy stem, and oblong, broad, flat, slightly indented 
leaves. That to which the present name has been given is a 
far handsomer and larger species, with pale-lilac flowers. Its 
truss (cyme) in a specimen for wdiich we are indebted to Cap¬ 
tain Trevor Clarke, is six inches across. The stem is nearly 
two feet high, and an inch in diameter at the base, while the 
leaves, wdiich grow in whorls of three, are three inches long, and 
an inch and three-quarters wide. The stamens are twice as 
long as the narrow, very sharp-pointed petals. Whether or 
Plate 56.—Sebtjm Eabaria : suffruticose, smooth; leaves opposite or in 
whorls of three, fleshy, pale green, large, oval, obsoletely toothed; flowers in 
a broad much branched cyme, pale-rose ; stamens twice as long as the petals. 
Sedum Eabaria, Koch , Synopsis Florce Germanics, 284. 
Sedum eababium, Lemaire , KIllustration Horticole, t. 271. 
