Fig. 49. CAPPARIS SPINOSA, THE CAPER. 



PLANTS OF PALESTINE I. 



CAPER AND ANEMONE. 



CHAPTEE XVII. 



" Ye are the Scriptures of the earth, 



Sweet Flowers and frail : 

 A sermon speaks in every bud 

 That woos the summer gale." 



TRAVELLERS have called attention to the similarity 

 between the Flora of the Riviera and that of 

 Palestine. 



It is indeed remarkable how many plants 

 mentioned in the Bible are common on this coast. 

 Mount Carmel is clothed with a brushwood of Oak, 



