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September (L opposite sessile about)

l. opposite, sessile, about 1/2in. in diameter, sub-orbicular, cordate-amplexicaul, entire or slightly sinuate. Stock thick, giving off many trailing or ascending, slender branches. Siberia, &c., 1829. A rather tender evergreen, well worth pot culture.

S. farinosum (mealy). fl. white, crowded, five to seven-parted; sepals pink-tipped, linear-oblong, obtuse; petals lanceolate, acute, keeled; cyme two or three-parted. July. l. crowded in four to six rows, deciduous, 1/2in. by 1/4in., scarcely forming a rosette, oblong, obtuse. Stems tufted, cylindrical, much-branched. Madeira. Plant glabrous, glaucous, pruinose or mealy, rather tender, evergreen. Probably an outlying insular form of S. album. S. farinosum (mealy), of gardens. A synonym of S. album. S. glandulosum (glandular).* fl. pale reddish-purple, 1/3in. in diameter, usually alternate on short, recurved, simple or forked, terminal cymes; petals twice or thrice as long as the calyx. June. l. scattered, sessile, 1/3in. to 2/3in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, cylindric. Stems simple or forked, 2in. to 6in. long, sub-erect, decumbent or ascending. Spain, 1871. Whole plant glandularhairy. Annual. (B. M. 5924.) S. glaucum (glaucous).* fl. pinkish-white, 1/2in. across, six-parted; sepals deltoid, acute; petals oblong, sharp-pointed at apex; stamens twelve; cymes three to seven-branched, umbellate, the branches spreading, slightly pilose; flower-stems 3in. to 4in. long, reddish. July. l. densely crowded, about 1/4in. long, linear, greenish-grey, becoming reddish, studded with fine hyaline pimples at the tips. Barren shoots 2in. long, branched. Central and