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Selaginella Lepidophylla
This species of club moss is found in
southern California, and has remarkable hygrometric qualities. Its
natural growth is in circular roseate form, and fully expanded
when the air is moist, but rolling up like a ball when it becomes
dry. It remains green and acts in this peculiar manner for a long
time after being gathered. Of late years numbers have been
distributed throughout the country under the names of "Rose of
Jericho" and "Resurrection Plant." This is, however, quite
distinct from the true Rose of Jericho, _Anastatica
hierochuntica_, a native of the Mediterranean region, from Syria
to Algeria. This plant, when growing and in flower, has branches
spread rigidly, but when the seed ripens the leaves wither, and
the whole plant becomes dry, each little branch curling inward
until the plant appears like a small ball; it soon becomes
loosened from the soil, and is carried by the winds over the dry
plains, and is often blown into the sea, where it at once expands.
It retains this property of expanding when moistened for at least
ten years.
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