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ANASTATICA

Volume 1 · 73 words · 1771 Edition

or rose of Jericho, in botany, a genus of the tetradynamia filiculosa clasps. The flower consists of four roundish petals, disposed in the form of a cross; the seed is a short bilocular pod, containing in each cell a single roundish seed. There are two species of the anastatica, viz. the hierochuntica, a native of the sandy parts of Palestine, and the shores of the Red-sea; and the Syriaca, a native of Syria.