PARIETALE8. 



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The curious plant called the Kose of Jericho (Anattatica Um-ochun 

 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 ia uprooted and blown about by the wind^ 

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



Fias. 542-5 — Illustrations op Papaver Kh(ba8. 



Fia. 542. 



Fio. 543. 



Fig. 544. 



Fig. 542. — Vertical eection of flower. Magnified. 

 Fig. 543. — Pistil and stamen. Magnified. 



Fig. 545. 



Fig. 544.— Flower diagram. 

 Fig. 545.— Eipe fruit. 



ing again when dry. On this account It is also called the Resurrection 

 Plant. 



Order Fumariacese. — Herbs with watery juice, alternate, usually 

 divided leaves ; flowers zygomorphic ; 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 



