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SEDUM ternatum. 
Three-leaved american Stone-crop. 
DECANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Semprnvive. Jussieu gen. 207. ' 
SEDUM. Cal. inferus, 5-partitus. Pet. 5, imo ‘calyci inserta, 
ealycinis divisuris numero wqualia et iisdem alterna. Stam. dupla quo-= 
rum alterna petalorum ungui inserta, alterna imo calyci: anth. subro- 
tunde. Germina petalis numero gequalia, basi interiori juncta, exterlori 
glandulosa glandulis squamiformibus; stylz et stigmata totidem. Caps. 
totidem, 1-loc., polyspermz, intis bivalves, marginibus valvarum semi- 
niferis. Herbe succulente; folia alterna, plana aut teretia; flores 
corymbosi, axillares et sepits terminales. Jussieu gen. 307. 
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S. ternatum, pumilum, repens; foliis planis rotundo-spathulatis ternis, 
cyma_ subtristachya, floribus _sessilibus, octandris, centro decandro. 
Pursh amer. sept. 1. 324. 
Sedum ternatum. Michaux bor. amer. 1. 277. Persoon syn. 1. 512. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3. 112. 
Sedum deficiens. Donn cant. ed. 6. 126. ' 
Sedum octagon. . Hortulanis. 
Sedum americanum. Herb. Banks. 
Sedum annuum caule compresso, foliis obversé ovatis. Gron, virg. ed. 
2. 71. : 
Sedum saxatile floribus albis, foliis succulentis subrotundis, caule rubente, 
Clayt. Herb. n. 891. : : 
Anacampseros ternata. Haworth succ. 114. 
_ Herba perennis ca@spitosa: caules stricti, foliati, florifert sub 4-unciales, 
pruinosi, subrubentes. Yolia caulina plana, crassa, terno-verticillata, verticillis 
decussatis, glabra, semuncialia v. infra ad uncialia v. supra ; floralia ovali-lan- 
ceolata. Inflorescentia terminalis, numerosa, sepins trifurco-tristachya flore 
solitario in. centro trifurcationtis 5 spice recurvo-divergentes,' alterno-secunda, 
Joliata, foljis pong spicam alternantibus cum floribus. Cal. herbaceus, 4-partitus, 
segments lineari-oblongis, obesis, obtustuscults, corolla 4-parte brevior. Cor. 
alba, 4-partita, semunciam transversa, stellata, laciniis qngustits lanceolatis, 
acuminatis, canaliculatis. Stam. 8, } breviora corolla, equaniza pistilla : anth. 
erecta, sagittato-ovate, rubido-brunnee. Germ. 4, alba, erecto-stellaia, ob- 
longa, attenuata, intis sutura marginata et bast rima labris tumidiusculis pro- 
minentioribus hiulca : stylus brevis continuus subulatus : stig, punctum acutum, 
oe hypogyne minute denud lutescentes, oblongo-quadrate, subdenti- 
‘ormes, 
The species was recorded in the Flora virginica of Gro- 
novius (1743), but seems to have missed its place in all sub- 
sequent enumerations of plants, until Michaux’s work ap- 
peared (1803), in which it stands under the present name. 
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