46 ANETHUM. 



Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and 

 cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, 

 judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and 

 not to leave the other undone.&quot; 



Some have supposed that the anise of Matt, xxiii. 23 was 

 the same as the present anise, and not the anethurn. But the 

 latter still grows near Nazareth in the month of July, which 

 shows that there is no reason for changing the meaning of the 

 original word to &quot;anise,&quot; especially as there is a distinctive 

 word for anise and as the Greek seldom uses the same word for 

 two varieties of the same plant. 



The scriptural allusion to this plant has reference to its un 

 importance, which might be inferred from the fact that it is 

 spoken of but once. It illustrates the minuteness of the Jewish 

 forms, which required the offering of the tenth part of even 

 so insignificant a plant. 



In the group of those plants represented in the second plate 

 that on the right is the Anethum. 



