. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. 292 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. part of the plant except the stamens and the face of the petals. This character and its flat, entire, rather rhomboid stalked leaves and long-stalked yellow flowers readily distinguish it. Description.—Annual or biennial, soft, downy, very viscid. Stem slender, erect, with many axillary ascending branches, dark red, densely clothed with patent viscid hairs, 4 to 8 inches high. Leaves alternate, rosulate in young plants, in flowering plants equalling or longer than the i
. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. 292 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. part of the plant except the stamens and the face of the petals. This character and its flat, entire, rather rhomboid stalked leaves and long-stalked yellow flowers readily distinguish it. Description.—Annual or biennial, soft, downy, very viscid. Stem slender, erect, with many axillary ascending branches, dark red, densely clothed with patent viscid hairs, 4 to 8 inches high. Leaves alternate, rosulate in young plants, in flowering plants equalling or longer than the intemodes, stalked, soft, fleshy, viscid-hairy on both sides ; petiole J inch long, lamina obovate trapezoidal, J inch long, I inch broad, bluntly pointed, mostly tipped with a small purple dot. Flowers many, yellow, subopposite the leaves or more rarely axillary, pedicels slender up to | inch long. Buds ovate, bluntly pointed, viscid-hairy, green or streaked with red. Sepals lanceolate, acute, fleshy, green, viscid-hairy, wide- spreading, not spurred. Petals linear-lanceolate, acute, f^ inch long, on face smooth, yellow, on back viscid-hairy and greenish dotted with purple, wide- spreading, 2to2| times the sepals, persisting after flowering. Stamens 10, yellow, f the petals, spreading. Scales small, broadly cuneate, minutely emar- ginate, pale orange-yellow. Carpels slender, oblong, greenish yellow, erect,. 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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