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The curious plant called the Rose of Jericho (Anaatatica hierochun- 

 tica), often sold as a curiosity, is a small annual, native of Arabia, 

 Egypt, and Syria. The mature plant after ripening its seeds contract 

 into a rounded mass, and is uprooted and blown about by the windi 

 When, however, the dry and dead plant is moistened, it expands, cloa. 



FIGS. 542-5. ILLUSTRATIONS op PAI-AVER RUCEAS. 



Fio. 542. 



FIG. 543. 



FIG. 544. 



Fig. 542. Vertical section of flower. Magnified. 

 Fig. 543. Pistil and stamen. Magnified. 



FIG. 545. 



Fig. 544. Flower diagram. 

 Fig. 545. Ripe fruit. 



inp; again when dry. On this account it is also called the Resurrection 

 Plant. 



Order Fumariacese. Herbs with watery juice, alternate, usually 

 divided leaves ; flowers zyjroiuorphic ; stamens definite, four, five or ' 

 six and diadelphous. Species about 100, natives of warmer portions of 

 the North Temperate Zone and of South Africa. They possess an acrid 

 .and astringent principle. 



Bentham and Hooker, in the " Genera Plantarum," unite this order 



