. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. 306 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 4-verticillate leaves, bushy growth, branches densely mammillate above, and yellow flowers with blunt linear sepals as long as the petals, will distinguish it from any other Sedum. Description.—A deciduous, bushy, glabrous biennial, forming in flower a rather dense rounded mass 4 to 6 inches in height and breadth. ^00^5 fibrous. Stem in first year short (2 to 3 inches), smooth, erect or inclined, simple, or with a few short patent branches, clothed with leaves which fal
. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. 306 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 4-verticillate leaves, bushy growth, branches densely mammillate above, and yellow flowers with blunt linear sepals as long as the petals, will distinguish it from any other Sedum. Description.—A deciduous, bushy, glabrous biennial, forming in flower a rather dense rounded mass 4 to 6 inches in height and breadth. ^00^5 fibrous. Stem in first year short (2 to 3 inches), smooth, erect or inclined, simple, or with a few short patent branches, clothed with leaves which fall in autumn ; in second year becoming J inch thick, with marked constrictions at the nodes, branches often thicker at their apices than at their bases, bearing many slender (i mm. diameter), erect or ascending, slightly grooved, reddish branches which branch many times and become densely mammillate above, the mammillae forming close, longitudinal rows. Leaves variable in arrangement, mostly. Fig. 182.—S. annuum Linn. 4-verticillate, sometimes (especially above) ternate, opposite or alternate, narrowly linear-spathulate, blunt, sessile, smooth, fleshy, flat above much rounder below, the lower about \ inch by -^ inch, diminishing upwards into similar spurred bracts, spur very short, rounded. Cymes terminal, very many, each of a central flower surrounded by three short (i inch), erecto-patent, leafy dichotomous branches, each bearing a flower in the fork and a few flowers on either side j pedicels shorter than the flowers, the upper ones very short. Buds ovate, acute. Flowers small, yellow, not opening widely, -^ inch across. Sepals resembling the leaves, green, often flushed red, slightly unequal, Unear to linear-spathulate, blunt, very fleshy, shortly spurred, up to about J inch long, erect or spreading in bud. Petals erecto-patent, yellow, equalling the longest sepal, ovate-lanceolate, grooved on face, with a reddish keel on back, nearly \ inch long, with a short mucro behi
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