ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 



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and which these monuments were no doubt intended 

 to illustrate. 



The Ariindo Donax is a reed which splits up easily 

 into thin strips, and is suitable for the manufacture 

 of baskets. It is so used in the South of Europe, as 

 well as for cages, fishing-rods, etc. 



Fig. 12 gives the various modes in 

 which this reed is found delineated. 

 Those people utilized this reed for 

 various purposes. No. 6, Nimrood 

 Gallery, gives a battle in a marsh, 

 from Sennacherib's palace, Kouyunjik, 

 in which there are rafts made up 

 of bundles of reeds. The hollowness 

 of this reed would make it a capital 

 float. 



Fig. 12. — Reeds on mar- 

 gins of rivers. — From 

 Layard, and series. 



THE LILY {LiJiicin Candiduvi). 



There is another Oriental plant which must have 

 struck the Assyrian artist with its purity, elegance and 

 exquisite scent. It is the * Madonna Lily ' — Liliinn 

 Candidmn. C. F. Ledebour, in his 'Flora Rossica ' (1852), 

 gives it as indigenous in the Caucasian provinces ; while 

 Mr. Baker, director of the Kew Herbarium, gives its 

 range along S. Europe, as far as Palestine, N. Syria, 

 and the Caucasus. There is little room for doubt that 

 so sweet and beautiful a lily, with a bulb so amenable 



