DISTRIBUTION OF THE HEATHER. 



red on the horizon when this vapor condenses into 

 'baths' of mist, which settles over the dark expanse ; 

 stems, branches and leaves are covered with drops of 

 water, and next morning everything is as thoroughly 

 soaked as if it had rained all throughout the night. 

 This process, which is regularly repeated during the 

 fine weather, is only interrupted when a damp wind 

 from the sea blows, driving masses of clouds over the 

 heath, or when copious rains saturate the soil. It 

 needs no further showing that under such conditions 

 an abundant and continuous transpiration from the 

 plants is impossible, and that in the short intervals 

 which are allowed to the leaves for transpiration the 

 outlets from the woody meshed, spongy parenchyma 

 must not be obstructed, and it does not need further 

 proof that the evergreen rolled leaf is the form most 

 suited and adapted to these conditions." 



In the Gothic translation of the Gospel, by Ulfilas, 

 he renders Matthew VI., 28, not by ''consider the lilies 

 of the field," but by "consider the blooms of the Heath." 



In Jeremiah XVIL, 6, occurs the passage, "For 

 he shall be like the Heath in the desert." This ref- 

 erence bears out the sense of the parched and fruit- 

 less existence of the Heath as it existed to the ancient 

 Greek; but the plant named in the Bible is given in 

 the Septuagint as the wild tamarisk. Relative to this 

 matter, McClintock & Strong's Encyclopedia states: 



"Heath; arar, has been variously translated, as 

 Myrica, tamarisk ; tamarin, which is an Indian tree, the 

 tamarind ; retama, that is, the broom ; and also, as in 

 the French and English versions, bruyere, heath, which 



