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Echeveria glauca Baker, in Saund. Ref. Bot. 1 : pi. 61, as synomym
1869.— Morren, Belg. Hortic. 24: 161. 1874.
Cotyledon glauca Baker, loc. cit.
Echeveria secunda glauca Otto, Hamb. Gartenz. 29 : 9. 1873.
Leaves in small but dense rosettes, nearly orbicular, about 2 cm. in diameter, broadened just above the apex, almost truncate, but with a decided purple mucro, very pale and slightly glaucous ; flowering stalk 1-1.5 cm. long, quite reddish above, few-leaved, the leaves small, ovate to orbicular, greenish or pinkish, slightly produced backward at base ; inflorescence a simple secund raceme, at first strongly nodding, 15-20-flowered ; lower pedicels longer, 3-4 mm. long ; sepals greenish, somewhat unequal, one-third to one-fourth the length of the corolla; buds shortly oblong, acute; corolla 1 cm. long, pinkish without except the spreading tips, and these as well as inside of corolla yellow ; old flowers triangular, acute at tip.
Type locality : Mexico. Distribution : State of Mexico.

Echeveria secunda Booth, in I^indl. Bot. Reg. 24: Suppl. 59. 1838
Echeveria spilota Kunze, in Schlecht. Hort. Hal. 20, as synonym. 1853. Cotyledon secunda Baker, in Saund. Ref . Bot. 1 : sub pi. 60. no. 14. 1869.
Acaulescent, glabrous, freely sending out lateral stolons. Iveaves numerous, inclined to be erect, forming a rather dense rosette, bluish-green, glaucous, ovate-cuneate, broad at apex but tipped by a strong mucro (rarely? with one or two lateral teeth), the mucro and margin more or less reddish. '* Flowering branches a foot high, slender, terete, pinkishglaucous with a few distinct small bract-like leaves ; flowers twelve to fifteen in a secund raceme, which is finally 4-6 inches long."
Type locality : Mountains east of the City of Pachuca, State of Hidalgo, Mexico. Distribution : Hidalgo.

Echeveria pumila Van Houtte, Cat. 1846; Schlecht. Hort. Hal. 20
1853.
Cotyledon pumila Baker, in Saund. Ref . Bot. 1 : ph 62. 1869. Echeveria secunda pumila Otto, Hamb. Gartenz. 29 : 9. 1873.
Not at all caulescent, glabrous, copiously stoloniferous from the crown of the root. Leaves 50 or 60 in a very dense rosette, the outer ones spreading, 25-40 mm. long, 12-15 mm, broad at widest point, pale glaucous-green, becoming tinged with red upwards; inflorescence like that of E, secunda^ from which it differs chiefly in its narrower leaves.
Type locality : Mexico. Distribution : Mexico.

Echeveria secunda, called the glaucous echeveria, is a species of succulent flowering plant in the genus Echeveria, native to Mexico, and introduced to the Dominican Republic, New Zealand, and Vietnam. Its cultivar 'Compton Carousel' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.