DODECANDMA. DODECAGYNIA. Smpebvivum. 590* 
S. tecto'rum. Leaves fringed; off-sets expanding: (edges of the 
petals hairy, entire. E.) 
Schmid. 53—Curt. 1 60—(E. Bot. 1320. E.)— FI. Dan. 601— Mill. ///.— 
Sheldr. 59 — Trag.,376 — Fuchs. 32— J. B. iii. 687— Blackw. 366— Clus. ii„ 
63. 2 —Matth. 1117 —Dod. 127. 2 —Ger.Em. 510. I—Park. 731. 3—Ger. 
411— II. Ox. xii. 7. 41. 
(The structure of this flower is not less beautiful than curious. Bloss. pale 
red, large, and star-like. Plant increasing by runners, terminating in 
tufts of densely imbricated, fleshy, succulent, leaves. Flowering stem 
six to twelve inches high, cylindrical, robust, bearing a many-flowered. 
cyme , with spiked branches. E.) Calyx not half so long as the blossom ; 
segments eleven or twelve. Petals twelve, smooth within, fringed with 
pellucid hairs at the edges, and on the outside. Stamens six to twenty- 
four. Pistils twelve, placed in an oval or triangular form. 
(When luxuriant, the number of the parts of the flower is greater than 
usual. Hull. Professor Hooker states the number of stamens to be in 
reality twenty-four, one half abortive, “ some bearing anthers, open lon¬ 
gitudinally and laterally, producing, instead of pollen, abortive ovules; 
others resembling a cuneiform, pointed, scale, in the inside of which, 
upon a longitudinal receptacle, are likewise ranged abortive ovules as in 
the real germen; thus exhibiting the most complete transition from 
stamens to germens in the same individual flower.” E.) 
Cyphel House-leek. (Irish: Tanne Eagla. Welsh: Bywfyth; Byd - 
darllys; Llys pentai. E.) Roofs and old walls. P. July.* 
* The juice, either applied by itself, or mixed with cream, gives present relief in burns, 
and other external inflammations. Mixed with honey, it is a useful application in apthous 
cases. Sheep and goats eat House-leek. (Lewis, in Mat. Med. gives an elaborate chemi¬ 
cal analysis of this plant, but the results prove unimportant as to medical virtues. It may 
be advantageously introduced upon grottos or rock-work, and is readily increased by offsets. 
Its vitality is such that, like some few other succulent herbs, it survives the longest 
droughts, and almost equals the amphibious reptiles and polypi in reproducing its kind, 
even after decimation. E,) 
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