. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 195 a blunt point, erect, fleshy, reddish-green, persistent in fruit, separate nearly to the base. Petals almost erect, nearly J inch long, linear-lanceolate, concave, keeled, blunt, more than twice the sepals. Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments pink, anthers orange-red. Scales whitish, wide-spreading, as long as. Fig. I id.—5. spuriutn M. B. broad. Carpels erect, pink or white, equalling the stamens { in fruit reddish and nearly erect with spreading beaks. Flow
. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. ACCOUNT OF GENUS SEDUM AS FOUND IN CULTIVATION. 195 a blunt point, erect, fleshy, reddish-green, persistent in fruit, separate nearly to the base. Petals almost erect, nearly J inch long, linear-lanceolate, concave, keeled, blunt, more than twice the sepals. Stamens shorter than the petals, filaments pink, anthers orange-red. Scales whitish, wide-spreading, as long as. Fig. I id.—5. spuriutn M. B. broad. Carpels erect, pink or white, equalling the stamens { in fruit reddish and nearly erect with spreading beaks. Flowers July-August. Hardy. Habitat;.—Caucasus and Transcaucasia. One of the commonest Sedums in cultivation; and, like most of the species widely spread in gardens, it possesses a multitude of names. A white-flowered form of it was described as a new species—5. opposiii- foHumr—in 1816 by Sims [Bol. Mag., pi. 1807) and the name has per- sisted—though challenged more than once—until Hamet finally disposed of it in 1908 (" Revision des S6dums du Caucase," in Trd. Bot. Soda (Tiflis), 8, part 3). Then it became confused with S. stoloni-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Praeger, R. Lloyd (Robert Lloyd), 1865-1953. Lehre [Ger. ] J. Cramer; New York, Stechert-Hafner Service Agency
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