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SEMPERVIVUM glutinosum. 
Clammy Houseleek. 
ooo 
DODECANDRIA DODECAGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Srmpervive. Jussieu gen. 307. 
SEMPERVIVUM. Supra vol, 2, fol. 99. 
S. glutinosum, caule frutescente, foliis cunciformibus viscidis ciliatis, ciliis 
cartilagineis appressis. Hort. Kew. 2. 147. 
Sempervivum glutinosum. Villd. sp. pl. 2.931. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 3.172. 
Jacq. hort. scheenb. 4. 39. t. 464. ~ Curtis’s magaz. 1963. Poiret supple 
encyc. de Lamarck. 3. 176. 
Caudex fruticosus, pollicem crassus, brevis, teres, erectus, glaber, radicans, 
undique emittens ramos ascendentes ceu totidem caules, 2 3 ad 4 pedes altos, 
crassos, glutinosos, foliosos, debiles, superné in paniculam abeuntes amplant 
laxamgué ex pedunculis subdivisis et patentissimis. Fol. sparsa, cuneiformia, 
obtusa cum parvo acumine, vents nervisque destituta, crassa, carnosa, virentia, 
ad oras cartilagineo-ciliata ciliis subappressis. Cal. glutinosus, circitér decem- 
dentatus, viridis. Pet. 8-10, lanceolata, patentissima, flava. Germina toti- 
dem quot petala. Stam. petalis duplo plura. Jacq. loc. cit. 
‘Native of the Island of Madeira, where it was observed 
by Mr. Masson, the king’s late botanical collector, and in- 
troduced in 1777. Its blossom makes a lively appearance 
in the greenhouse, where it continues in beauty for two or 
three months together. The foliage is suffused with a trans-. 
parent viscous confluent excretion, and looks as if newly 
varnished. Small insects are ensnared in this limy surface. 
The species was first represented by a figure in the Hortus 
Scheenbrunnensis of Jacquin, one of the most splendid works 
in this department of Natural History. 
Stem shrubby, nearly an inch in diameter, smooth, short, 
putting out a greater or less number of weak thickly limed 
flower-stalks, from 2 to 4 feet in length, dividing up- 
wards into alternate wideset leafy subdivided panicles, with 
loosely flowered spikelets. Leaves scattered, spreading, ap- 
proaching each other in the form of an expanded rose at 
the top of the stem, cuneately oblong, bright, limy, 3 to 4 
inches long, thick, fleshy, cartilaginously fringed at the edge 
with the fringe generally close-pressed, rounded at the top 
with a small point, gradually diminishing to small fleshy con- 
cave bractes as they ascend on the flower-stalk: pedicles not 
so long as the flower is wide. Calyx 9-10-cleft, green, limy. 
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