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CRASSULACE^;.575. S. acre Linn. sp. pi 619. E. Bot. t. 839. Woodv.t. 231. Eng. Bot. ii. 317. DC. iii.prodr. 4-07 Common onwalls, dry roofs and old ruins all over Europe.Root fibrous, subdivided. Herb smooth, succulent, and tender,grass-green, very hot and pungent to the taste, composing lax, widespreadingtufts. Stems entangled, branched; the branches leafy, erect,round, 2 or 3 inches high. Leaves imbricated on the barren branches ;scattered on the flowering ones ; obtuse, convex at the back, flattenedabove, spurred at the base. Flowers of a golden yellow, more orless numerous, in 3-branched leafy, or bracteated, cymes. Capsulesmembranous. Smith. Petals lanceolate, acuminate. Leaves acrid.Has been recommended in cancerous cases, and also in epilepsy.*** The Crassula pinnata Loureiro, with an intensely bitter taste, andused against dropsy, &c., which Dierbach admits into this order, iffevidently, as De Candolle has remarked, not a Crassulaceous plant atall, but belongs to some entirely different natural order.

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