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FLORA OF THE 



conventional pine tree, enclosed in the conical outline 

 which the tree often shows. Moreover, in Flandin's 

 ' Voyage en Perse,' pi. 98, tome ii, similar trees have 

 fir cones on them ; so that there is no possibility of mis- 

 interpreting their meaning. They are associated with 

 another very conventional tree shown in fig. 581^, and 

 which I take to have been meant for a date tree, both 

 trees being indigenous in Persia. 



Then in pi. 65, fig. 5, Mr. Goodyear says: "Bull; 

 lotus amulet pendant from the 



collar." I have given it in 

 fig. 56. 



But why interpret this pen- 

 dant into a lotus, when an 



unsophisticated eye could only 



see in it an ordinary bell, 



hanging from the bull's collar, 



which may probably be seen 



all over the world where cows 



are let loose in the jungle to 



graze ? The only difference is 



that this conventional bell has 



seven clappers in a row, put 



in to fill the line and please 



the eye. 

 Then in p. 232 he gives an Assyrian sacred tree 



with a number of peripheral cones. He says that 



Fig. 56. — Bull from pi. 65, fig. 5 

 { ' Grammar of the Lotus ' ). 



