TETRAD Y NAM I A, 
in 
ORDER II. SILICULOSA. 
(A SIL1CLE.) 
Meaning such plants whose pericarpiurn is a little or short siliqua (called silicula ), 
and is either flat or turgid. 
iS*? fGenera. 
N° of 
Growth, species. Native of 
Species in 
Britain. 
1st, Silicic entire, not end-nicked at top. 
39 Draba h 9 Alps 
Brit. 3 
80 I,unaria 
21 Myagrum 
22 Subularia 
h 2 Hungary 
h 10 Spain, &e. 
Brit. 1 
h I Europe 
Brit. 1 
23 ‘Vella 
h 2 Spain 
Brit. 1 
2d. 
24 Alyssum 
25 Anastatica* 
26 Biscutella 
27 Clypeola 
28 Cochlearia 
Silicle end-nicked at top. 
s & h 37 Spain, Alps, Crete 
h 1 Jericho, Syria 
h 6 Italy 
h 3 Italy 
h 8 Denmark, Greenland Brit. 6 
29 Iberis 
s & h 13 Gibraltar, &c. 
Brit. 2 
30 Lepidium 
h 20 America, Alps 
Brit. 4 
31 Peitaria 
32 Thiaspi 
h 2 Cape 
h 12 Alps, Europe 
Brit. 6 
* Anastatica hierochuntica (rose of Jericho) was formerly called by the monks 
rosa marice, who made a miracle of the flower opening in the form of a cross on 
the night that our Saviour was born.—The fact is this ; according to Mr Miller, 
the flower consists of four small petals of a whitish green colour, which open in 
the form of a cross, like the other genera of this class; it is a low annual plant, 
dividing into many irregular woody branches, which being dried, may be preserved 
many years, and at any time being set two or three hours in water, will dilate and 
open so as to disclose the seed vessels and seed.—For this singular circumstance it 
is preserved in the cabinets of the curious . It is said that Lord Trimbleston has 
one that hath been in the family above seventy years, and still possesseth this 
remarkable property. - 
