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gardens. The species only require to be sown in the open bor- 

 der. A light sandy soil suits them best. 



XLVII. OCHTHO'DIUM (from o X 0^ c , ochthodes, 

 warted ; in allusion to the warted surface of the pods.) D. C. 

 syst. 2. p. 423. prod. 1. p. 184. 



LIN. SYST. Tetradynamia, Siliculbsa. Silicles coriaceous, 

 somewhat globose. Stigma sessile. Dissepiment thick. Cells 

 1 -seeded. Cotyledons flat, oval-oblong, obliquely accumbent. 

 An annual, erect, branched herb, with pinnatifidly-lyrate lower 

 leaves, somewhat similar to those of Rape, and rather entire 

 upper ones ; with the stems pilose at base, and with elongated 

 racemes, bractless short pedicels and yellow flowers. 



1 O. ./EGYPTIACUM D. C. syst. 2. p. 423.) O- H. Native 

 of Egypt and Syria. Bunias /Egyptiaca, Lin. syst. nat. 3. p. 231. 

 Gmel. in Act. petrop. 12. p. 509. t. 9. Jacq. hort. vind. t. 145. 

 Myagrum verrucosum, Lam. diet. 1. p. 570.no. 11. Rapistrum 

 jEgyptiacum, R. Br. in hort. kew. ed. 2. vol. 4. p. 74. Eucli- 

 dium jEgyptiacum, Andrz. cruc. ined. Radical leaves stalked. 

 Petals larger than the calyx. 



Egyptian Ochthodium. Fl. Ju. July. Clt. 1787. PI. J foot. 



Cult. This plant is scarcely worth cultivating except in bota- 

 nic gardens. It only requires to be sown in the open border. 

 A light sandy soil suits it best. 



XLVIII. PUGIO'NUM (from pugio, a dagger ; resem- 

 blance in point of pods.) Gaert. fruct. 2. p. 291. t. 142. D. C. 

 syst. 2. p. 424. prod. 1. p. 185. 



LIN. SYST. Tetradynamia, Siliculbsa. Silicle coriaceous, 

 transversely oval, echinated on all sides, and ending in a long, 

 dagger-like point, 1 -celled and 1 -seeded from abortion. A 

 smooth herb with linear, entire, half stem-clasping leaves, and 

 loose racemes of small white flowers. 



1 P. CORNU'TUM (Gaert. I.e.) Q.I H. Native of the Le- 

 vant and Siberia, in the desert of the Kalmucks, at the Caspian 

 Sea. Bunias cornuta, Lin. spec. 935. Myagrum cornutum, 

 Lam. diet. 1. p. 571. Flowers hardly larger than those of 

 Erfyhila verna. Petals narrow, quite entire. Leaves linear, 

 somewhat tongue-shaped, glaucous. 



//orerf-podded Pugionum. Fl. Jim. July. PI. foot ? 



Cult. This plant is hardly worth cultivating except in botanic 

 gardens. It only requires to be sown in the open border, in a 

 warm dry situation. A light sandy soil will suit it best. 



Tribe V. 



ANASTATrCE-32 (plants agreeing in important characters 

 with Anastatica.) or PLEURORHI'ZE^ (See Sub-Order I.) 

 SEPTULA'T^E (a dim. of septum, a dissepiment; dissepiment 

 small.) D. C. syst. 2. p. 424. prod- 1. p. 185. Silicle opening 

 longitudinally (f. 46. /.), with concave valves, bearing internally 

 transverse, horizontal dissepiments, which separate the seeds (f. 

 46. /.). Seeds not margined. Cotyledons flat, accumbent, pa- 

 rallel with the dissepiment (f. 45. g. h.). 



XLIX. ANASTA'TICA (from avaaraatQ, anastasis, resur- 

 rection ; plant recovering its original form however dry it may 

 be, on immersion in water.) Gaert. fruct. 2. p. 286. t. 141. D. C. 

 syst. 2. p. 425. prod. 1. p. 185. 



LIN. SYST. Tetradynamia, Siliculbsa. Silicle ventricose 

 (f. 46. e.), with the valves bearing each an appendage on the out- 

 side at the end (f. 46./.). Petals obovate. A small annual 

 herb, branching from the neck. The younger plants are herba- 

 ceous, villous and expanded. The adult plants become hard, 



ligneous, and smooth, with the branches crowded lattice-wise 

 into a globular form. The leaves are oblong, and entire, the ra- 

 cemes are short, and placed opposite the leaves. The flowers 

 are small, sessile, and white. 



1 A. HIEROCHUNTI'NA (Lin. spec. 895.). G-F. Native of 

 arid wastes in Egypt near Caira ; Palestine, and Barbary ; on 

 roofs of houses and among rubbish in Syria ; of Arabia in sandy 

 deserts on the coasts of the Red Sea. Jacq. vind. t. 58. Lam. 

 ill. t. 555. Schkuhr. handb. 2. no. 1760. t. 179. good figure. 

 A. littoralis, Sal. prod. 266. Lob. icon. 2. p. 203. Moris, hist. 

 2. p. 228. sect. 5. t. 25. f. 2 & 3. Weinm. phyt. t. 914. f. c. Stem 

 much branched, somewhat dichotomous, dwarf. Leaves oblong 

 or ovate, narrowed at the base into the petiole. Pods somewhat 

 pubescent. The leaves fall off from the plant after flowering, 

 and the branches and branchlets become dry, hard, and ligneous, 

 and rise upwards and bend inwards at their points, hence they 

 become contracted into a globular form, and in this state the 

 plant is easily withdrawn from the sand by the wind and blown 

 from the desert into the sea, and as soon as it comes in contact 

 with the water, the branches gradually expand, and the pods 

 open and relieve the seeds, which are thrown again upon the 

 shore by the tide, and scattered with the sand through the desert 

 by the wind. If this plant is taken up before it is withered, and 

 kept entire in a dry room, it may be long preserved, and after 

 being many years in this situation, if the root is placed in a glass 

 of water a few hours, the buds of flowers will swell, open, and 

 appear as if newly taken out of the ground, or it will recover its 

 original form in the same manner if wholly immersed in water. 

 The common people in Palestine believe that if you put this 

 plant in water at the time when a woman first experiences the 

 pains of child-birth, it will expand at the precise moment when 

 the infant is brought into the world. The plant is called Kaf 

 Maryam or Mary's Flower in Palestine, because it is supposed 

 that the flower opened at the instant our Saviour was born. 



Rose of Jericho or Holy Rose. Fl. Ju. Jul. Clt. 1597. PI. \ ft. 



Cult. The seeds of this plant rarely ripen in England, unless 

 they be sown in a hot-bed early in the spring, and the plants 

 afterwards put into pots which should be plunged again into the 

 hot-bed to bring them forward ; for although the seeds will come 

 up in the open ground, where the soil is dry, yet the plants rarely 

 rise to any size, nor do they perfect seeds unless the summer is 

 very hot and dry ; but if the plants are kept in a frame, giving 

 them free air in warm weather, they will flower in June and ripen 

 their seeds in September. This plant is only grown in the 

 gardens of the curious for its singularity. 



L. MORE'TTIA (in honour, of J. L. Moretti, an Italian 

 botanist). D. C. syst. 2. p. 426. prod. 1. p. 185. 



LIN. SYST. Tetradynamia, Siliculbsa. Silicle ovate, with the 

 valves not appendiculated at the end. Petals linear. A branched 

 herb, beset with fascicled-stellate grey hairs. Leaves obovate, 

 cuneated at their base, and grossly toothed at their apices. 

 Racemes erect, with short pedicels in the axillae of the bracteas, 

 which are leafy and longer than the flowers. 



1 M. PHIL-SIA NA (D. C. syst. 2. p. 426.) 1? . Q.I H. Native 

 of Nubia near the island of Phila. Sinapis Philaeana, Delil. fl. 

 segyp. p. 99. t. 33. f. 3. Tucnexia Philaeana, D. C. syst. 2. 

 p. 426. Stems suffruticose at the base, about the thickness of 

 a pigeon's quill. Leaves alternate, almost sessile. Flowers 

 distant, small, probably white. Pods oblong, velvety on the 

 outside. 



Phila Morettia. Fl. June, July. PL | to f foot. 



Cult. As this plant possesses no beauty, it is only worth 

 cultivating in botanical gardens. It should be sown in a dry 

 warm situation in the open border, where the seeds will ripen. 



