Crossword-Solution: SEDUM 5 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And it is a still more solemn thought to him, that it was not always so; that æons and ages back, that rock which he passed a thousand feet below was fringed, not as now with fern and blue bugle, and white bramble-flowers, but perhaps with the alp-rose and the “gemsen-kraut” of Mont Blanc, at least with Alpine Saxifrages which have now retreated a thousand feet up the mountain side, and with the blue Snow-Gentian, and the Canadian Sedum, which have all but vanished out of the British Isles.

Round the neck of a porcelain vase imagine a broad margin of the gray-white tufts peculiar to the sedum of the vineyards of Touraine, vague image of submissive forms; from this foundation come tendrils of the bind-weed with its silver bells, sprays of pink rest-barrow mingled with a few young shoots of oak-leaves, lustrous and magnificently colored; these creep forth prostrate, humble as the weeping-willow, timid and supplicating as prayer.

Within the depths of the scooped-out neck of porcelain, suppose a wide margin composed of the white tufts peculiar to the sedum of vines in Touraine; a vague image of desirable forms turned like those of a submissive slave.

SAXIFRAGEA ORPINE (_Sedum Telephium_).—Also called Midsummer May; grows in Otterbourne Park, and a large bunch on the Romsey Road.

Small rushes, grasses, and sedges formed the remaining vegetation, amongst which were the withered stalks of gentians, _Sedum, Arenaria, Silene,_ and many Composite plants.