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2. Sempervivum Canariense, or Canary houseleek..—This 
seldom rises above a foot and half high. The stalk is thick 
and rugged, chiefly occasioned by the vestiges of decayed 
leaves. At the top is a very large crown of leaves, disposed 
circularly like a full blown rose. The flower-stalk comes 
out from the centre, and rises near two feet high, branching 
out from the bottom, so as to form a regular pyramid of 
flowers.—Native of the Canary Islands. 
3. Sempervivum glutinosum, or clammy houseleek.—■ 
Leaves wedge-form, viscid, ciliate, cilias cartilaginous, pressed 
close. Petals yellow, eight or nine. Stamens sixteen or 
eighteen. Pistils eight or nine.—Native of Madeira. 
4. Sempervivum glandulosum, or glandulous-leaved house¬ 
leek.—Stem frutescent; leaves orbicular-spatulate, glandular 
at the edge, glands globular, nectaries wedge-form truncate. 
—This is also a native of Madeira. 
5. Sempervivum tectorum, or common houseleek.—Leaves 
ciliate, offsets spreading. It has a perennial fibrous root. 
Root-leaves in form of a full-bloom double rose. Flowering- 
stem upright, from nine inches to a foot in height, round, 
fleshy, pubescent, having alternate, lanceolate, thinner 
leaves on it, of a reddish colour, at top branched and form¬ 
ing a sort of corymb ; the branches spreading and bending 
back. Flowers numerous, clustered, upright, pubescent, 
flesh-coloured, all growing one way.—Native of many parts 
of Europe on rocks, and on the roofs of buildings, but there 
not properly indigenous: it flowers in July. 
6 . Sempervivum globiserum, or globular houseleek.— 
Leaves ciliate, offsets globular. Leaves much narrower, and 
the heads furnished with a greater number of them than 
those of the preceding species.—Native of Russia, Austria, 
Germany and Switzerland. 
7. Sempervivum villosum, or hairy houseleek.—Leaves 
spatulate-wedge-form obtuse, villose; nectaries palmate; seg¬ 
ments subulate. It is an annual plant.—Native of Madeira. 
8 . Sempervivum tortuosum, or gouty houseleek.—Leaves 
obovate beneath, gibbous, villose; nectaries two-lobed. This 
is a shrubby plant of low growth, producing numerous 
fleshy leaves, growing thickly together.—Native of the 
Canary Islands. 
9. Sempervivum stellatum, or starry houseleek.—Stem 
herbaceous, pubescent; leaves spatulate, scattered. If the 
synonym of Seguier be right, it is a native of Monte Baldo, 
where it was found on the rocks by Giovanni Battista 
Scarella. 
10. Sempervivum arachnoideum, or cobweb houseleek.— 
Leaves interwoven with hairs; offsets globular. This has 
much shorter and narrower leaves than the common house¬ 
leek.—Native of the mountains of Switzerland, Dauphine 
and Italy. 
11. Sempervivum hirtum, or rough houseleek.— Stem 
leaves and ends of the petals rough haired. Root hard, 
round, perennial; from which there are many rose-like tufts 
of leaves, as in the next species.—Native of Germany, Silesia 
and Piedmont, 
12. Sempervivum montanum, or mountain houseleek.— 
Leaves quite entire; offsets spreading. This greatly resembles 
the fifth or common houseleek.—Native of Germany, Silesia, 
Austria, Switzerland, the South of France and Italy. 
13. Serpervivum sediforme, or stonecrop-leaved house¬ 
leek.—Leaves scattered, lower ones cylindrical, upper ones 
flattened. All the stems are perpetually and constantly 
very stiff and standing upright. —Native of the South of 
Europe. 
14. Sempervivum monanthos, or clustered houseleek.— 
Leaves round-club-shaped clustered, peduncles naked, mostly 
one flowered, nectaries obcordate. The number of the parts 
of fructification varies from five to eight.—Native of the Ca¬ 
nary Islands. 
Propagation and Culture .—The first is easily propa¬ 
gated "by cutting off the branches, which, when planted, 
soon put out roots; these should be laid in a dry place for a 
week before they are planted, that the bottom may be healed 
over, otherwise they are apt to rot, especially if they have 
much wet. 
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The second is propagated by seeds, which should be sown 
soon after it is ripe in pots filled with light sandy earth, 
covering them over very lightly with the same earth. These 
require shelter in winter, all the others, except No. 7, are 
increased by offsets. 
The 3, 4, 7, 8, 14 sorts require the protection of a green¬ 
house. 
SEMPITE'RNAL, adj. [sempiternus , Lat.] Eternal 
in futurity; having beginning, but no end.—'1 hose, though 
they suppose the world not to be eternal, a parte ante, are 
not contented to suppose it to be sempiternal, or eternal, a 
parte post; but will carry up the creation of the world to 
an immense antiquity. Hale. 
SEMPITE'RNITY, s. [sempiternitas, Lat.] Future 
duration without end. 
This silent night, when all things lie in lap of sweet repose, 
Ye only wake; the powres of sleepe your eyesdo never close; 
To shew the sempiternitie, to which their names ye raise. 
On wings of your immortal verse, that truly merit praise. 
Mir. Mag. 
SEMPRINGHAM, a decayed parish of England, in 
Lincolnshire; 3 miles east-south-east of Folkingham. 
SEMPRONIUS, a post township of the United States, in 
Cayuga county. New York; 160 miles west of Albany. 
Population 3137. 
SE'MSTRESS, s. [feamj cpe, Sax.] (The word is also 
often written sempstress.) A woman whose business is to 
sew; a woman who lives by her needle.—Two hundred 
semstresses were employed to make me shirts, and linen for 
bed and table, which they were forced to quilt together in 
several folds. Swift. 
SEMUR, a small town in the east of France, formerly 
the place of meeting of the states or parliament of 
Burgundy. It stands in a picturesque situation among 
rugged rocks, and is surrounded on three sides by the river 
Armancon. Its population, including the suburbs, is 4300. 
Here is a small public library. Semur has considerable 
manufactures of woollen stuffs, linen and leather, and some 
trade in corn, wine and cattle; 42 miles north of Autun, 
and 34 north-west of Dijon. Lat. 47. 32. N. long. 4. 
20. E. 
SEMYDA, the name of a tree, mentioned by Theophrastus, 
and by some supposed to be the same with the betula, or 
birch-tree, but very erroneously. 
SEMYLE, a fortress of Hindostan, province of Assam. 
It is situated on the bank of the Brahmapootra river, which 
it commands. It was taken by the Mahometans in 1662; 
but in consequence of an epidemical disease, they were 
compelled to abandon it, and all the other parts of Assam. 
Lat. not ascertained. 
SEN, or Sens, ado. Since: Sen or sin is still our 
northern word; sens is Spenser’s accommodation to his 
rhyme. 
With boastfull vain pretence 
Stept Braggadochio forth, and as his thrall 
Her claim’d, by him in battell wonne long sens. Spenser. 
SENA, Senna, or Egyptian Cassia, in the Materia 
Medica, a leaf much used in purgative draughts and com¬ 
positions. 
The shrub which bears it is a species of Cassia ; which 
see. 
SENA, Bastard, in Botany: See Cassia.—Sena, Blad¬ 
der: see Colutea.—Sena, Podded: see Coronilla.— 
Sena, Scorpion, a species of Coronilla; which see. 
SENA, a Portuguese settlement in Eastern Africa, about 
247 miles up the great river Zambeze. It contains about 
2000 inhabitants, is protected by a strong fort, and com¬ 
mands all the settlements on the river It forms also the 
centre of the trade carried on there, which consists chiefly 
in bringing down ivory and gold dust collected in the 
interior. 
SEN ABA, a village of Lower Egypt, on the left bank of 
the Nile; 13 miles south of Melani. 
SENAC, 
