CRUCIFERE. Se eee 
appears to be the vmyxéov _ ot Dioscorides, «and Hypecoan of 
Pliny, now known as Cumin cornu or r Horned . cummin, and . 
like fumitory, a weed of cultivation. 
Corydalis Govaniana, Wall., Roy yle 11 b.10,1.2, a 
Be sine of the Western Himalaya, has a yellow juice which is 
employed medicinally in the treatment of eye diseases like» 
Mamiran. (Aitchison, Journ. Linn. Soc. 19, p- 145.) The’ 
_ chemical composition of these plants closely resembles that of 
_ Fumaria.’ They have been used as alteratiyes, but are of little 
Beporiance: 
| -CRUCIFERE. 
= _ANASTATICA HIEROCHUNTINA, Linn. 
i Fi 1g.-—Jac. re 1, t. 58, Rose of Jericho (Eng )s Rose do . 
ebeeas (Z'r.). 
Hab. Sa = Bae 
 Vernacular.—Kat Maryam, Kaf Aye (Arab.), Garbha 
phil (Hind., Guz.).. 
History, Uses, &c.—This is a small Sanaa plant- 
_ growing in sandy wastes in Syria, and is supposed to be the 
p onresl rolling thing, or wheel of Isaiah. There is a-tradition ~ 
_ that the plant exncidad at the birth of the Saviour. — 
_ Mahometan writers have appropriated this tradition in favour. 
E of Ayesha, the: favourite wife of the Prophet and mother of 
the Faithful; the. opening of the plant when wetted being — 
, ; this, when placed in’ wa 
- expands, and the pods after a time 6pen and | discharge | 
E seeds; the property of expansion when moist, and 
when ae is retained for years. There can be 
‘that the dried = was — t introduced : 
