Sempervivum

* Hen-and-chicks (houseleek) - Sempervivum tetorum - soothes minor stings and burns

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Jacquin figures an analogous case in _Sempervivum sediforme_, [152] in which the branches of the inflorescence were prolonged into leafy shoots.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Saxifraga cuneifolia; Sempervivum arachnoideum L.; and lastly, in shady dells, Daphne laureola L.  With two or three exceptions, these flowers were found in blossom at the end of April, but they had been so for some weeks previously.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

The House Leek (_Sempervivum tectorum_), or "never dying" flower of our cottage roofs, which is commonly known also as

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Fig. 165 legend -- for _Sempervivun tecotorum_ read _Sempervivum tectorum_.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

_ -- A species of _Sempervivum_, exhibited by Mr. Salter, of

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

Bolan, Sempervivum, Stapelioides used as a vegetable, and for fever by

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

It is difficult to draw any accurate inference from this enumeration, but attention may be called to the frequency of this occurrence in certain plants, such as the _Sempervivum_, the wallflower, the poppy, and the heath.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

_Sempervivum tectorum_ and _S. montanum_, have long been noticed as being very prone to present this change.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The cavity in this case would probably be due not to any real process of excavation, but to a disproportionate growth of the outer as contrasted with the central parts of the fig. Some species of _Sempervivum_ have a similar mode of growth, so that ultimately a kind of tube is formed, lined by the leaves, the central and innermost being the youngest.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters