. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. 298 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. western North America. Easily distinguished by its usually annual duration, persistent white, membranous, old leaves, tall branched growth, small flowers, beaded upper leaves and sepals, and peculiar scales. Description.—A loosely tufted, glabrous, sub-deciduous annual or biennial. Stems branched, decumbent or ascending, round, smooth, finely striate, shining, dark brownish purple; the barren ones short (2 to 4 inches), with axillary branches above, each bearing a lax r
. An account of the genus Sedum as found in cultivation. Sedum; Crassulaceae. 298 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. western North America. Easily distinguished by its usually annual duration, persistent white, membranous, old leaves, tall branched growth, small flowers, beaded upper leaves and sepals, and peculiar scales. Description.—A loosely tufted, glabrous, sub-deciduous annual or biennial. Stems branched, decumbent or ascending, round, smooth, finely striate, shining, dark brownish purple; the barren ones short (2 to 4 inches), with axillary branches above, each bearing a lax rosette of leaves, the fertile ones 6 to 8 inches, leafy, with terminal cymes. Leaves of barren stems alternate, entire, sessile, fleshy, flat, oblong-obovate, broad at the base but scarcely clasping, rounded or very bluntly. Fig. 177.—5. Someni Hamet. pointed at the apex, scarcely spurred, i by J inch, bright green ; those of the flowering shoots half as large, obovate, margins beaded, decreasing upwards into similar bracts, the lower ones at flowering time dry, membranous, and white. Inflorescence of 3 erecto-patent, forked branches with flowers in the forks, rather flat-topped, 1 to 2 inches across, lowest flower shortly stalked, the rest sessile. Buds ovate, bluntly pointed. Flowers rather small and inconspicuous, ^ inch across, greenish yellow. Sepals unequal, obovate-oblong, obtuse (Hamet) or apiculate, beaded on the edges, shortly spurred, bright green, about equalling the petals, wide-spreading in bud. Petals yellow, wide-spreading, ovate, subacute to acuminate, J^ inch long. Stamens 5 (sometimes 10), § as long as the petals, yellow, the epipetalous ones inserted near the base of the petals. Scales small, greenish, narrowly linear in lower half, almost cordate in upper half. Carpels green, erect, equalling the stamens, narrowing into short styles, stigmas capitellate. Flowers July-August (cold frame and gentle heat). Not hardy. Habitat.—Yunnan. Grown from seed col
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