SEDUM, a genus of plants of the natural order crassulacece, having the calyx in 4 to 8 (usually 5) deep segments, which often resemble the leaves, the same number of spread ing petals, twice as many stamens, and 4 to 8 (usually 5) germens, each with a nectarifer ens scale at the base. The species are numerous, with succulent, often roundish, leaves; and pretty, star-like flowers. Many of them grow on rocks, whence the English name STONE-CROP. They are natives of the temperate and cold parts of the northern hemi sphere; some are British. They have no important uses; some are refrigerant, others arc acrid. Among the British species is S. tetephiton,'popularly called ORPINE, some times used as a diuretic; and S. acre, the most common, whose brilliant yellow flowers adorn the tops of old walls, the debris around quarries, etc.
SEE (Lat. sedes, a seat), in ecclesiastical use, properly signifies the seat or chair (eathedra), sometimes also called "throne," of a bishop. Popularly, however, and Indeed by universal usage, it is employed to designate the city, and thence, at least in popular language, the entire diocese, in which the seat of the bishop is placed, and over which, consequently, his episcopal jurisdiction extends. Sees have always been fixed,
at least in their primitive establishment, in some city or considerable town; and it is to he observed that the name of a see is always taken not from the district governed by the bishop, but from the city or town. Sees in partibtts infidelium (q.v.) still retain their ancient names, although in very many cases not merely the cities themselves, but even all traces of the Christian religion, in the sites upon which they anciently stood, have disappeared. In the Roman church the pope alone establishes sees, and alters their distribution and their kcal limits and boundaries; but these changes are not made except in extreme cases (such as that of the French revolution) without the consent of the actual bishop. In the Anglican church this is done by the authority of the legis lature.