pels 8-10-seeded: styles none.—Near T. aquatica, Linn., as Mr. Nuttall
remarks: perhaps not distinct.
3. T. Drummondii: stems diffuse, dichotomous; leaves oblong-linear,
rather obtuse, somewhat connate; flowers nearly solitary, on pedicels at
length as long as the leaves; petals (reddish) and obtuse carpels twice the
length of the sepals.
Texas, Drummond! Feliciana, Louisiana, Prof. Carpenter! in damp
prairies and along the margin of ponds. April.—Plant about an inch high,
slightly succulent. Leaves longer and narrower than in T. Vaillantii. Carpels
12-20-seeded: styles almost none. Seeds oval.
4. T. angustifolia (Nutt.! mss.): “ branching from the base, rooting;
leaves linear, acute, connate; flowers axillary, nearly solitary, on very short
pedicels; segments of the calyx 4, ovate, about half the length of the ovate
obtuse petals; carpels broad, obtuse, many-seeded.
“ Muddy banks of the Oregon and Wahlamet.—Plant 1-2 inches high.
Styles none: stigma minute. Petals as long as the carpels. Seeds small,
linear-oblong.” Nuttall.
2. SEDUM. Linn.; Gnertn.fr. t. 65; DC.prodr. 3 .p. 401, Spmem. t. 4-9.
Sedum & Rhodiola, Linn.
Sepals commonly 5, more or less united at the base, usually turgid. Petals
distinct, mostly spreading. Stamens twice the number of the petals. Carpels
as many as the sepals, many-seeded, with an entire scale at the base of
each.—Herbs or rarely suffrutescent plants, mostly branching from the base.
Leaves alternate or scattered, sometimes opposite or - verticillate, usually
crowded on the sterile branches. Flowers cymose, sometimes with 4 or 6-7
sepals and petals, and consequently 8 or 12-14 stamens.
* Leaves flat.
1. S. Rhodiola (DC.): glabrous; leaves oblong, serrate, or sometimes almost
entire; root tuberous; stem simple; flowers (yellow) in a crowded and
nearly sessile corymbose cyme, mostly tetramerous and by abortion diceci-
ous.—DC.! fl. Fran., Sfpl. grass, t. 143; Torr.! in ann. lye. New York, 2.
p. 206; Hook.! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 227. Rhodiola rosea, Linn.! spec. 2. p.
1035; Engl. hot. t. 508. R. odorata, Lam. ill. t. 819.
Arctic America, from Greenland! to Kotzebue’s Sound! Newfoundland!
and on the Rocky Mountains to lat. 41°, Dr. James!— 24 Flowers small.
The root exhales the odor of the rose.
2. S. telephioides (Michx.): leaves ovate or oval, attenuate at the base,
somewhat toothed, glabrous; stem erect; cymes paniculate-corymbose,
dense; stamens 10, scarcely exceeding the ovate-lanceolate (pale purple)
petals.—Michx.! fl. 1. p. 277; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 324 ; Nutt.! gen. 1. p. 293 ;
DC. prodr. 3. p. 402.
On rocks in the mountainous region of the Southern States! Harper’s
Ferry, Virginia, and near the Great Falls of the Potomac, Mr. Rich ! Rocky
hills near Sparta, New Jersey, Nuttall. Shore of Seneca Lake, New York,
Mr. Hall. Limestone cliffs near Utica, Indiana, Dr. Clapp! June-Aug.—
24 Stem a foot high. Leaves 1-2 inches long.—Closely resembles S. Tele-
phium (the common Orpine or Live-for-ever of the gardens), which is beginning
to be naturalized in a few places.
3. S. sparsiflorum (Nutt.! mss.): “ glabrous, branched from the base,
erect or decumbent; leaves all scattered, oblong, small; cyme compound;
the flowers sessile, scattered along the circinate branches, mostly decandrous;
petals (yellow) lanceolate, acute, rather longer than the ovate sepals; styles
short.
Plains of Red River, Arkansas, Nuttall! Dr. Jamer! Dr. Pitcher! Dr.
Leavenworth! Texas, Drummond! May.— @ Stems 2-4 inches high.
Leaves about 2 lines long. Flowers small.
4. £. spathulifolium (Hook.): glabrous, glaucous or pulverulent; leaves
broadly spatulate, obtuse; the uppermost small; stems decumbent at (he
base; cyme compound; flowers slightly pedicellate, decandrous; petals
(yellow) linear-lanceolate, acute, much longer than the calyx, scarcely exceeding
the stamens.—Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 227.
Oregon, on rocks, Douglas, Nuttall! May.— 24 Stems about 6 inches
high. Flowers rather large.
5. S. Oreganum (Nutt.! mss.) : “ glabrous, not glaucous; leaves all scattered,
spatulate, rounded at the summit; stems erect, simple ; cyme compound
; the flowers on very short pedicels, decandrous; petals (pale rose-
color) linear-lanceolate, much acuminate, 3-4 times the length of the ovate-
lanceolate acuminate sepals, and about twice the length of the stamens.”
Rocks, near the mouth of the Oregon, Nuttall!— 24 Petals more than
half an inch long.
6. S. ternatum (Michx.): leaves glabrous, entire; the lower ones ternately
verticillate, broadly cuneiform-obovate, attenuate at the base; the uppermost
scattered, oval or lanceolate, sessile; stems low, creeping at the base,
assurgent; cyme 3-spiked, with the flowers unilateral and octandrous, sessile,
about the length of the leafy bracts; the solitary central flower decandrous ;
stamens shorter than the linear-lanceolate acute (white) petals.—Michx.! fl.
1. p. 277 ; Pursh, l. c .; Ell. sk. l.p . 529; Torr.! fl. 1. p. 463; Bot. mag. t.
1977; Bot. reg. t. 142 ; DC.! prodr. 3. p. 403 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 482.
S. annuum, &c. Gronov.! fl. Virg. ed. 2. p. 71. S. portulacoides, Muhl.!
in Willd. enum. l . p . 484.
Rocky banks of streams, Upper Canada ! and Pennsylvania! to the mountains
of Georgia, and throughout the Western States ! May-June.— 24 Stems
branching from the base, 3-8 inches long. Branches of the cyme spreading
or recurved, loosely flowered. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse. Anthers purplish
brown.—Stone-crop.
7. S. pulchellum (Michx.): leaves glabrous, linear, obtuse, flatfish, closely
sessile and more or less aurieulate at the base, very numerous, scattered ;
stems assurgent, often branching from the base ; cyme of several umbellate
spikes, which are spreading or recurved in flower, but straight and rather
erect in fruit; the flowers crowded, closely sessile, unilateral, somewhat exceeding
the linear bracts, octandrous; the solitary central one commonly
decandrous; petals (pale purple or rose-color) lanceolate, acute, about twice
the length of the lanceolate obtuse sepals.—Michx.! fl. 1. p. 277 ; Muhl. '
cat. p. 46 ; Nutt. gen. 1. p. 292 ? S. pulchrum, DC. 1. c.
0. flowers rather larger; petals pale rose-color or nearly white.—S. lini-
folium, Nutt.! mss.
On rocks, in the mountainous portions of Virginia ! to Georgia ! and west
to Kentucky ! Tennessee ! Arkansas! and Texas ! 0. Arkansas, Nuttall !
May-June.— 241 or (T) Stems 4-12 inches loDg. Branches of the cyme
rarely somewhat scattered. Anthers brown. Styles slender.
8. S. Douglasii (Hook.): glabrous ; leaves linear-subulate, crowded, very
acute, flat on the upper side, carinate below, with membranaceous margin.