450 Mr. Lamsert’s Note on the Mustard Plant of the Scriptures. 
of the Holy Land, although a very common plant in the East Indies. Now as 
there is but one mustard-seed mentioned in three different places in the Scrip- 
tures, the oldest records appear to prove that the mustard so common in those 
days, and to which our Saviour so often alludes, was a species of Sinapis, and 
most probably Sinapis nigra. 
Captains Irby and Mangles inform me they have seen our Mustard plant in 
the Holy Land growing as high as their horses heads; and other travellers 
have seen the Sinapis nigra growing to the height of ten feet, 
