ANAPELTIS. Included under Polypodium.
ANARRHINUM (from a, without, and rhin, a snout; the corolla being without a spur, or furnished with a very short one). ORD. Scrophularineæ. Elegant little half-hardy biennials or perennials allied to Antirrhinum. Flowers small, drooping, in long spike-formed, twiggy, and interrupted racemes. Radical leaves usually in a rosette; stem and branch leaves palmate-parted, or toothed at the apex; superior ones quite entire. They are of easy culture in ordinary garden soil; seed may be sown outside in spring, or they can be increased by growing cuttings, but they require protection during severe weather.
A. bellidifolium (Daisy-leaved).* fl. white, or pale blue; racemes slender, elongated. June. l. radical ones spathulate or obovate-lanceolate, deeply toothed; branch leaves deeply three to seven-parted. h. 2ft. South Europe, 1629.
A. Duriminium (Douro). A synonym of A. hirsutum.
A. fruticosum (shrubby). fl. white, without a spur. July. l. lower ones mostly tridentate at the apex; superior ones oblong, quite entire. h. 2ft. to 3ft. South Europe, 1826. Shrubby.
A. hirsutum (hairy). fl. whitish, a little larger than those of A. bellidifolium, of which it is, perhaps, only a downy variety. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Portugal, 1818. SYN. A. Duriminium.
FIG. 85. DRY FRUITING PLANT OF ANASTATICA HIEROCHUNTINA.
ANASTATICA (from anastasis, resurrection; plant recovering its original form, however dry it may be, on immersion in water). ORD. 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 sunless summers.
FIG. 86. ANASTATICA HIEROCHUNTINA.
A. Hierochuntina. Rose of Jericho. fl. small, white, sessile, disposed in spikes along the branches; petals obovate. July. fr., or silicle, ventricose, with the valves bearing each an appendage on the outer side at the end. l. obovate, with stellate hairs; lower ones entire, upper ones slightly toothed. Branches crowded lattice-wise into a globular form. h. 6in. Syria, &c., 1597. Supposed by some commentators to be the "rolling thing before the whirlwind" mentioned by Isaiah. See Figs. 85 and 86.
ANASTOMOSE. Branching of one vein into another.