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Salvia, two or three species ; Malope and Malva in profusion ; Iris-, 

 Sisyrinchmm ; a very few scarlet Tulips (I believe ; the bloom was 

 over here. I was told that, a week before, they abounded between 

 Jafta and Jerusalem). 



Amongst the rocks were Cyclamens ((7. latifolium, white, C. 

 repanditm^ red) of every shade of pink, lilac, and white, blooming 

 profusely. The greatest novelty, and one of the loveliest plants, 

 was the Linum SihtJior planum^ which grew about a foot or so high, 

 covered with large-sized flowers of a deep pink, which, when 

 fading, verges to lilac. This plant, with Cyclamens, Banunculi, 

 and the Faronychiay was the commonest flower around the Holy 

 City. Here too we found Sippoerepis multisiliquosa^ EcJiitmi 

 italicum and several other blue-flowered Boragineae, a blue >S'ca- 

 hiosa very like our ovra S. cohimlaria^ and several species of 

 Trigonella and Medicago^ Ei^odium malacoides, Latliyrus cicera, 

 Coronilla glaiica, and Pistim arvense. Between Dhoheriyeh and 

 Hebron we welcome some scattered trees on the hill-sides, a few 

 olives, Ceratonia siliquay Pistacia terehintliuSy &c. ; on the hill- 

 sides, too, are thickets of the prickly oak (Quercus pseudo- 

 coccife7^a) *, which reaches its fullest development in the great 

 oak of Mamre, near Hebron : here on the hill-sides it is a thickly 

 leaved bush ; the foliage far more prickly than when fully grown. 

 Many other shrubs are found in the thickets, as Arbutus andracline 

 and, I think, A, unedo, Pistacia lentiscus, Passerina Jiirsuta^ Cistus 



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creticuSj Alhagi Maurorum, several species of Genista, Coronillay 

 and Cytisus ; whilst the more exposed hill-tops are covered with 

 a dense growth of Foterium spinosum. From under almost every 

 bush, from out of every crevice in the rock, peers the lovely 

 Cyclamen latifolium, and in the open grassy spaces the tall and 

 elegant spikes of Asphodelus ramosns and A. luteus ; the same 

 plants, in less abundance, are seen north of Hebron, on the way 



to Jerusalem. 



At Hebron we see the fig- and olive-gardens, and the vines of 

 Eslicol, which are now (March 23) just beginning to push out 



their young shoots. 



Grreat and numerous as are the attractions of Jerusalem, and 

 limited as is the period spent there by most travellers, little time 

 is found for botanizing in its neighbourhood; but amongst the 

 plants I found during my walks and rides were ^ Uyoscyamus 

 aureus^ a common weed, growing even on the walls of the church 

 of the Holy Sepulchre, together with the onmipresent wall-plant 



* Sec Dr. Hooker's art. on Oaks of Palestine, Linn. Soc. Trans, vol. xxiii. p. 381. 



