ANASTATIC A

(from anastasis, resurrection; plant recovering its original form, however dry it may be, on immersion in water). O RD. Cruciferæ. A very curious and interesting little annual, the leaves of which fall off from the plant after flowering, the branches and branchlets then become dry, hard, and ligneous, and rise upwards and bend inwards at their points. This plant has the remarkable property of resuming vitality on being placed in water, after being kept in a dry state for many years. Seeds should be sown in heat, in the spring, and the plants afterwards potted off and plunged again in heat to hasten their growth, which cannot otherwise be fully developed with our precarious and sunle summers. IMG:7081556231692414330_i_070a.jpg: F IG . 86. A NASTATICA H IEROCHUNTINA .