Part 62 (1/2)

1. P. sedodes, L. Leaves lanceolate, acute at both ends.--Open wet places, N. Brunswick to Fla., west to Minn., E. Kan., and Tex.

July--Oct. Parts of the flower rarely in sixes or sevens.

2. TILLae'A, Mich.

Sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils 3 or 4. Pods 2--many-seeded.--Very small tufted annuals, with opposite entire leaves and axillary flowers.

(Named in honor of _Michael Angelo Tilli_, an early Italian botanist.)

1. T. simplex, Nutt. Rooting at the base (1--2' high); leaves linear-oblong; flowers solitary, nearly sessile; calyx half the length of the (greenish-white) petals and the narrow 8--10-seeded pods, the latter with a scale at the base of each.--Muddy river-banks, Ma.s.s. to Md. July--Sept.

3. SeDUM, Tourn. STONE-CROP. ORPINE.

Sepals and petals 4 or 5. Stamens 8 or 10. Follicles many-seeded; a little scale at the base of each.--Chiefly perennial, smooth, and thick-leaved herbs, with the flowers cymose or one-sided. Petals almost always narrow and acute or pointed. (Name from _sedeo_, to sit, alluding to the manner in which these plants fix themselves upon rocks and walls.)

[*] _Flowers perfect and sessile, as it were spiked along one side of spreading flowering branches or of the divisions of a scorpioid cyme, the first or central flower mostly 5-merous and 10-androus, the others often 4-merous and 8-androus._

[+] _Flowers white or purple._

1. S. pulch.e.l.lum, Michx. Stems ascending or trailing (4--12' high); _leaves terete, linear-filiform_, much crowded; spikes of the cyme several, densely flowered; _petals rose-purple_.--Va. to Ga., west to Ky., E. Kan., and Tex.; also cultivated in gardens. July.

2. S. Nevii, Gray. Stems spreading, simple (3--5' high); _leaves all alternate_, those of the sterile shoots _wedge-obovate or spatulate_, on flowering stems _linear-spatulate_ and flattish; cyme about 3-spiked, densely flowered; _petals white_, more pointed than in the next; the flowering 3 or 4 weeks later; leaves and blossoms smaller.--Rocky cliffs, mountains of Va. to Ala.

3. S. ternatum, Michx. Stems spreading (3--6' high); _leaves flat, the lower whorled in threes, wedge-obovate_, the upper scattered, _oblong_; cyme 3-spiked, leafy; _petals white_.--Rocky woods, N. Y. to Ga., west to Ind. and Tenn.

[+][+] _Flowers yellow._

S. aCRE, L. (MOSSY STONE-CROP.) Spreading on the ground, moss-like; leaves very small, alternate, almost imbricated on the branches, ovate, very thick; petals yellow.--Escaped from cultivation to rocky roadsides, etc. July. (Nat. from Eu.)

4. S. Torreyi, Don. Annual; stems simple or branched from the base (2--4' high); _leaves flat_ or teretish, scattered, _oblong_, 2--3”

long; petals rather longer than the _ovate sepals_; carpels at length widely divergent.--Mo. to Ark. and Tex.

[*][*] _Flowers in a terminal naked and regular cyme or cl.u.s.ter, more or less peduncled; leaves flat, obovate or oblong, mostly alternate._

[+] _Flowers perfect, 5-merous, 10-androus._

5. S. telephiodes, Michx. Stems ascending (6--12' high), stout, leafy to the top; leaves oblong or oval, entire or sparingly toothed; cyme small; _petals flesh-color_, ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed; _follicles tapering into a slender style_.--Dry rocks, N. J. to Ga., west to western N. Y. and S. Ind. June.

S. TELePHIUM, L. (GARDEN ORPINE or LIVE-FOR-EVER.) Stems erect (2 high), stout; leaves oval, obtuse, toothed; cymes compound; _petals purple_, oblong-lanceolate; _follicles abruptly pointed with a short style_.--Rocks and banks, escaped from cultivation in some places. July.

(Adv. from Eu.)

S. REFLeXUM, L. Glabrous, erect, 1 high; _leaves crowded, cylindric, subulate-tipped, spreading or reflexed; flowers yellow_, pedicelled.--Coast of Ma.s.s.; western N. Y.; rare. (Nat. from Eu.)

[+][+] _Flowers dicious, mostly 4-merous and 8-androus._

6. S. Rhodola, DC. (ROSEROOT.) Stems erect (5--10' high); leaves oblong or oval, smaller than in the preceding; flowers in a close cyme, greenish-yellow, or the fertile turning purplish.--Throughout Arctic America, extending southward to the coast of Maine, and cliffs of Delaware River; also in the western mountains. May, June. (Eu.)

ORDER 37. DROSERaCEae. (SUNDEW FAMILY.)