. Flowers of the field. Botany. 176 and sometimes glaucous leaves ; flowers often 6-merous, bright or pale yellow.—Walls and dry banks ; not uncommon, but seldom, if ever, indigenous.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 10. S. rnphire (Rock Stonecrop), an allied species, with densely imbricated, adpressed, glaucous' leaves, slighdy flattened, M-\i^ flowers in corymbose cymes, occurs;wild on limestone at St. Vincent's Rocks, Piristol; Cheddar ; and the Great Orrae's Head ; and elsewhere generally as an escape.—V. June, July. Perennial. 11. .S'. Fo!-sierianui?i (\Velsh Stonecroij), a spec
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 176 and sometimes glaucous leaves ; flowers often 6-merous, bright or pale yellow.—Walls and dry banks ; not uncommon, but seldom, if ever, indigenous.—Fl. July, August. Perennial. 10. S. rnphire (Rock Stonecrop), an allied species, with densely imbricated, adpressed, glaucous' leaves, slighdy flattened, M-\i^ flowers in corymbose cymes, occurs;wild on limestone at St. Vincent's Rocks, Piristol; Cheddar ; and the Great Orrae's Head ; and elsewhere generally as an escape.—V. June, July. Perennial. 11. .S'. Fo!-sierianui?i (\Velsh Stonecroij), a species very closely allied to the preceding, but with bright green, not glaucous leaves and fio-LL'ers in round- topped or ca|)itate cymes, grows on wet rocks in \\'ales, Shrop- shire, and Somerset.— Fl. June, July. I'eren- nial. I *4. SEMPEr^\'lVUM \ ^^ J IJ (House-leek). - Suc- culent plants with dense rosettes of ses- sile radical leaves, giv- ing off offsets from their axils ; Jlmcers in branched cymes, 6 — 20-merous ; stamens in 2 whorls, the inner usually barren ; Jiype- i^ynous seales fringed ; foliieles manv-seeded. (Name frcjm the Patin semper, always, vivo, I live.) 1.* .V. teetorinn (Common House-Jcek).—A common but scarcely indigenous plant, growing on the roofs of cottages and outhouses. Phe leaves are thick and juijc)', edged with red-purple, ciliate, mucronate, and in compact rosetfes. The dull red-purple /^tizt'trj are in scorpioid cymes, and are usually 12-merous. The inner whf)rl of staine/is frequently have anthers i-ontaiiiing ovii/es, like thiise in the carjicP, which, however, never mature as seeds. 'A'hu leaves contain malic acid —Fl, June, July. SE!VIPFR\'i\' I'M (Oj/ I H,nis,:-lrik).. 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 Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexand
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