The blossoms are small and yellow, and if the weather be fine, open
about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the stalks are of a bright
red colour, and the foliage yellowish green.




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~Sempervivum arachnoideum. Cobweb Houseleek.~


_Class and Order._

~Dodecandria Dodecagynia.~

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 12-partitus. _Petala_ 12. _Caps._ 12. polyspermæ.

_Specific Character._

SEMPERVIVUM _arachnoideum_ foliis pilis intertextis, propaginibus
globosis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. p. 456._

SEDUM montanum tomentosum. _Bauh. Pin. 284._

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By the old Botanists, this plant was considered as a _Sedum_; and to