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• an armed police force organized on military lines but distinct from the regular army

• A genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). The diversity of the genus is concentrated in the Sino-Himalayan region, though the plants can be found throughout north temperate areas and parts of eastern Africa. Many are cultivated as garden ornamentals. The root tubers of some Asian species are used in Eastern medicine to treat pain, fibromyalgia, and high blood pressure, but clinical studies are lacking.

• a genus consisting of shrubs or small trees of the rose family (Rosaceae) native to temperate Eurasia. Widely cultivated for their attractive growth habit, many species have been introduced into other temperate regions for use in landscaping. Cotoneasters are closely related to hawthorns and firethorns, many of which are also economically important as ornamental species.

• A large genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. Native to China and the Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Myanmar, etc.).

Use for: popcorn flowers

• a genus of flowering plants in Boraginaceae. They are known commonly as cat's eyes and popcorn flowers. They are distributed throughout western North America and western South America, but they are absent from the regions in between.

Use for: Cryptogamae

• a plant or plantlike organism (such as a fern, moss, alga, or fungus) reproducing by spores and not producing flowers or seed

• a family of plants widely distributed, usually evergreen, coniferous trees and shrubs having small, flattened, scalelike or sometimes needle-like leaves and including the cypress, juniper, and arborvitae.

Use for: trailing bellflowers

• the genus of trailing bellflowers, consists of mostly Himalayan, mat-forming, dainty perennials with wide-open, blue bell tubes encased in cuplike green calyxes. The genus differs from other bellflowers in having its ovary superior (above) to the base of the floral tube.

Use for: Cycadales

• Any of the palmlike woody gymnospermous plants that constitute the order Cycadales. The order consists of three extant (not extinct) families—Cycadaceae, Stangeriaceae, and Zamiaceae. Some authorities use the term cycad to refer to all members of the division Cycadophyta. Plants of this division are known to have existed in the Mesozoic Era (251.9 million to 66 million years ago).