Tas. 4400. 
ANASTATICA uierocuuntica. 
hose of Jericho. 
Nat. Ord. Cructrerm.—TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 
Gen. Char. Silicula longitudinaliter dehiscens, ventricosa, valvis concavis intus 
, transverse septuia horizontalia semina separantia gerentibus, extus ad apicem 
| appendiculatis. Pétala obovata.  Semina immarginata.  Cotyledones plane, 
accumbentes, septo parallela. De Cand. 
ANASTATICA hierochuntica. 
Anastarttca hierochuntica. Zinn. Sp. Pl. p. 895. Jacq. Hort. Vind. t.58. dit. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 0. 4. p.19. De Cand. Prodr. v.11, p.185. Spreng. Syst. 
t Veget. v. 3. 
Amomum Rosa Sanctze-Marie, Lonic. Bot. 258. 
Many synonymes might be added to these just adduced, if 
they el a of ne Te the space, indicative of the 
. Sacredness of this plant, or of the superstitious veneration in 
j which it was, and still is, held by the ignorant people inhabiting 
the country where it exists: such as “ Rosa de Hiericho "of 
Dalechamp, “ Rosa hierochuntica ” of Commelin, &c. Respecting 
| this, however, the true “Rose of Jericho,’ much ignorance 
. prevails in our own country, and of late years among us the 
name has been incorrectly transferred to 2 Ses ee 
lants sessing similar hygrometric properties), as. 
ting ton this, as all oe “‘ifferent from any real Rose, and — 
coming too from widely different countries :—one, the Zycopo- 
— dium lepidophyllum from. western Mexico ; the other, the Capsules 
Of certain South African species of Fig-marigold (Mesembry-- 
anthemum). 
The “le of Jericho (as little cenit = a Rose Bass he 
Cab is a plant humble and insignificant in appearance, ye 
the oo: of Eastern travellers has long been directed a 
on account of the hygrometric property of the old withere 
annual stems, which are rolled up like a ball in dry weather 2 
rooted by the storms of the deserts in Syria and Egypt, and aoe 
about by the winds. If rain falls, the branches are resto 
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