A native of North America, where it is found on rocks in 
the western parts of Pensylvania, Virginia, and Carolina. 
We know of no figure of it; although one of the hand- 
somest and fittest plants for covering walls or rock-work of 
any in our gardens; into which it was first introduced by 
Sir Joseph Banks in 1789. Begins to flower in June, and 
continues to do so abundantly for a considerable time. 
Soon forms a large close tuft, with stems about four 
inches high. Leaves flat, succulent, thick,» in whorls 
of three each decussating the one the other at small dis- 
tances, from half an inch to more than an inch in length, 
those on the stem which do not belong to the inflorescence, 
obovately spatulate, or with a roundish blade narrowed 
downwards, those more immediately connected with the 
inflorescence alternate, much narrower, oval lanceolate. 
Flowers, terminal, octandrous, generally in three many- 
flowered spikes, deriving from the same point at the sum- 
mit of the stem, and having a single decandrous flower 
seated at their confluence, recurvedly divergent, leafy, with 
flowers pointing inwards, and alternating with the. floral 
leaves, the upper ones of which are disposed in a.double row 
behind them. Calyx herbaceous, 4-parted, with thick 
linear oblong bluntish segments. Corolla white, 4-parted, 
about half an inch across, stellate, with narrow lanceolate 
channelled divisions. Stamens 8, a third shorter than the 
corolla: anthers reddish brown. Germens 4, white, stellate, 
oblong-acuminate, with a suture along the inner margin, 
more prominent and partly dehiscent towards the base. 
Hypogynous scales minute, oblong, squared, becoming’ 
yellow. or 
The drawing was made from a plant‘at the nursery of 
‘Messrs Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith. A hardy 
plant, requiring the.common treatment of the other sorts. 
