Description - A Flora of Berwick-Upon-Tweed by George Johnston
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...137. SEDUM. "Leaves flat. I. S. Telephium, stem erect; leaves flattish, serrated; flowers purple, in a terminal leafy corymb. Orpine. Hab. Borders of fields near the sea, a mile north of Eye mouth, sparingly, Eev. A. Baird. Aug. Sept. % 2. S. anglicum, stems tufted, much branched, 2 or 3 inches high; leaves ovate, thick, mostly alternate, spurred at the base; cyme of 2 smooth branches; flowers white, speckled with red. English Stonecrop. Hab. Heugh, Holy Island, and about the Castle, Thomp. July. (c) This species is said to be annual, but Mr Neill finds it will endure for two years, though no more, in a flower-pot. 3. S. acre, stems tufted, branched; leaves alternate, nearly ovate, thick, tumid, spurred at the base; cyme of 3 smooth branches, leafy; flowers golden yellow. Biting Stonecrop. Hab. On walls and rocks, common. June. I f 4. S. villosum, pubescent, viscid; stem erect, spotted with red; leaves alternate, linear, flattened; flowers corymbose, rosecoloured. Hairy Stonecrop. Hab. Bogs and moist rocks. By rivulets (and in bogs) at the foot of Cheviot, "Winch. Basaltic heights between Belford and Bamborough, Thomp. June. U 5. S. reflexum, leaves awl-shaped, scattered, spurred at the base, the lowermost recurved; flowers cymose, yellow; segments of the calyx ovate. Yellow Stonecrop. Hab. On walls rare. On a dike near Kyloe Manse; and at Easington. July. 1). The tenacity with which this species retains life is illustrated by the following fact. I pressed strongly between dry papers a specimen without radicles, and the flowers of which were not in the least expanded. The papers were changed every three or four days; but at the end of as many weeks, so far was life from being extinct, that it had protruded many white radicle fibres from one to .
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