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SEDUM. 
I.—With flat leaves. 
1. Sedum verticillatum, or whorled stonecrop.—Stem a 
foot high, erect, round. Leaves in fours, lanceolate, scarcely 
a finger’s length, equally serrate. Racemes axillary, small, 
solitary. Flowers small.—Native of the most southern parts 
of Europe and of Siberia. 
2. Sedum telephium, or orpine stonecrop.—Leaves flattish, 
serrate, corymb leafy, stem erect. Root perennial, tuberous. 
Corymbs terminating, many-flowered, close or heaped to¬ 
gether. Flowers deep purple, very rarely white in England ; 
though that seems to be the most common colour in some 
foreign countries. 
This is the only English sedum with flat leaves. Being a 
handsome plant and easily cultivated, it is met with in most 
gardens, where it will sometimes grow a yard high.—Native 
of Portugal, Spain and Switzerland: there are several varieties. 
3. Sedum anacampseros, or evergreen orpine.—Leaves 
wedge-shaped, attenuated at the base, subsessile, stems de¬ 
cumbent, flowers in corymbs. Roots fibrous, perennial.— 
Native of Germany, Switzerland, the south of France, Raly, 
China, Cochin-china and Japan, growing out of the crevices 
of rocks. 
4. Sedum divaricatum, or spreading stonecrop.—Leaves 
wedge-rhombed, emarginate, petioled, stems branched, pa¬ 
nicles terminating, spreading.—Native of Madeira. 
5. Sedum Aizoon, or yellow stonecrop.—Leaves lanceo¬ 
late, serrate, flat, stem erect, cyme sessile, terminating. 
Root perennial, composed of many thick fleshy fibres, from 
which come out several stalks rising near a foot high. Em¬ 
bryo the size of the seed.—Native of Siberia. 
6 . Sedum hybridum, or germander-leaved stonecrop.— 
Leaves wedge-shaped, concave, somewhat toothed, aggre¬ 
gate, branches creeping, cyme terminating. This rises with 
very numerous slender stems of about two feet in height, and 
often of a red cast on the upper part.—Native of Tartary, at 
the foot of the Uralian mountains, about Trebisond. 
7. Sedum populifolium, or poplar-leaved stonecrop.— 
Leaves flat, cordate, toothed, petioled, corymbs terminating. 
—Native of Siberia. When the plant grows in an open si¬ 
tuation, exposed to the sun, the leaves and stalks become of 
a bright red colour. It is the only hardy sedum cultivated 
with us that has a shrubby stalk: the leaves are deciduous. 
8 . Sedum stellatum, or starry stonecrop.—Leaves flattish, 
angular, flowers lateral, sessile, solitary. This is a low an¬ 
nual plant.—Native of Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, 
and, according to Loureiro, of China, about Canton. 
9. Sedum alsinefolium, or chickweed-leaved stonecrop.— 
Root biennial. Stem erect, branched. Flowers white, on 
long peduncles.—Native of Piedmont, in shady stony places. 
10. Sedum cepaea, or purslane-leaved stonecrop.—Leaves 
flat, lanceolate, stem branched, flowers panicled, petals acute, 
awned. Root annual.—Native of Germany, France, Swit¬ 
zerland and Italy. This has a variety. 
11. Sedum libanotieum.—Root-leaves in bundles, spatu- 
late-lanceolate, stem almost naked, quite simple. Raceme 
terminating, length of the stem; pedicels scattered, commonly 
two-flowered. 
II.—With round leaves. 
12. Sedum dasyphyllum, or thick-leaved stonecrop.— 
Leaves opposite, ovate, obtuse, fleshy, stem weak, panicle 
glutinose. Root perennial, composed of small white fibres. 
—Native of many parts of Europe, as France, England, 
Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Portugal and Italy; also of Bar¬ 
bary; in the fissures of rocks and on walls: flowering in 
June. This pretty little sedum, introduced into a garden, 
propagates itself freely upon walls, in waste places, and 
about garden pots. No plant is better adapted to the pur¬ 
pose of decorating rock-work; where it grows without any 
trouble, in any aspect, multiplying very much by young 
shoots, and looking beautiful throughout the year. 
13. Sedum reflexum, or yellow stonecrop.—Leaves awl- 
shaped, scattered, loose at the base, the lower ones recurved. 
Root perennial. Flowers in a terminating subcymed panicle, 
with many flowered branches, for the most part recurved.— 
Native of Europe: it has two varieties: common in England 
on walls and thatched roofs; and on rocks in the northern 
counties: flowering in July. 
14. Sedum hispidum, or hispid stonecrop.—Branches 
filiform, panicled, villose, leaves half-round. Flowers nu¬ 
merous ; each on a capillary pedicel. Annual.—Native of 
Barbary. 
15. Sedum virens, or green stonecrop.—Leaves awl- 
shaped, scattered, loose at the base, flowers in cymes, petals 
half as long again as the' lanceolate calyx.—Native of Por¬ 
tugal. Perennial. 
16. Sedum rupestre, or rock stonecrop.—Leaves awl- 
shaped, erect, clustered in five rows, loose at the base, flowers 
sub-cymed. This is a little smaller than the reflexum.— 
Native of England and Wales, Germany, Carniola, Silesia, 
Dauphine, and Piedmont, on rocks and walls : flowering in 
July. Perennial.—There are 13 more species, of which the 
most remarkable are— 
22. Sedum album, or white stonecrop.—Leaves oblong, 
round, blunt, spreading, smooth, panicle very much 
branched. Root perennial, fibrous.—Native of Europe, on 
rocks, walls and roofs: flowering in July. 
23. Sedum acre, biting stonecrop, or wall pepper.—Leaves 
alternate, subovate, fleshy, adnate-sessile, cyme trifid, leafy. 
Root perennial, fibrous. Cymes terminating, solitary, few- 
flowered. Flowers erect, sessile. Petals acute, yellow, 
twice the length of the calyx. The whole plant is acrid, 
and chewed in the mouth has a very hot biting taste, whence, 
aud from its common place of growth, it has the name of 
wall pepper.—Native of Europe, in dry sandy and gravelly 
pastures, on houses, walls, banks and rocks. Common in 
England: flowering in June. This plant has been used in 
medicine; but its operation is very rough and violent: it 
makes, however, an excellent cataplasm, producing all the 
effects of the most powerful blister. 
25. Sedum Anglicum, English, or mild white stonecrop. 
—Root annual, fibrous. Stems in tufts, decumbent at the 
base, smooth, red, leafy. Leaves mostly alternate, somewhat 
glaucous. Cymes terminating, solitary, almost leafless, 
racemed. Flowers erect, five-cleft.—Native of Britain and 
Norway, on rocks, sandy coasts, roofs and walls. 
28. Sedum villosum, or hairy stonecrop.—Leaves alter¬ 
nate, linear, flattish, somewhat hairy, as are also the pe¬ 
duncles, stem erect. Root perennial, small, fibrous. Petals 
white, or rose-coloured, with a red rib.—Native of Britain, 
Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Denmark. In bogs 
and moist meadows in the northern counties of England, and 
in Scotland. It flowers in June and July. 
Propagation and Culture .—The Orpines may be easily 
increased by cuttings during the summer months.—All the 
sorts of stonecrop are easily propagated, by planting their 
trailing stalks either in spring or summer, which soon put 
out roots; both thrive much better upon rocks, old walls or 
buildings, than in the ground. They may therefore be dis¬ 
posed upon rock-work in such a manner as to have a good 
effect. 
SEDUNOVA, a village of Asiatic Russia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkoutsk, on the Lena; 12 miles north of Orlenga. 
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