in Syria, Phoenice ^jc. 5^9 



Gall-Oak, were ftrewed all over with a Variety oi anemones ^ 

 Ranunculuffes, Colch'icas, and Mandrakes. Several Pieces of 

 Ground near Tripoly were full of the Liquorice- Plant ; and at 

 the Mouth of the famous Grotto near Bellmofit, there is an 

 elegant Species of the Blew Lilly , the fame with Morifons 

 Lilmm Terficum florens. There are fo many Dangers and 

 Difficulties which attend a Traveller through the Holy Land, 

 that he is in too much Hafte to make many curious Obferva- 

 tions, much lefs to colled; the Plants and other Curiofities of 

 that Country. However^ in the Beginning of March, I could 

 not avoid obferving, that the Plains betwixt Jaffa and Ramah, 

 and indeed feveral other Places in the Road to Jerulale?n, 

 were particularly diftinguiilicd by feveral beautiful Beds of 

 Fritillaries, Tulip, and other Plants of the fame Clafs. 



The Mountains of §luarentania afford a great Quantity oirie punts of 

 yellow Tol'mm, and fome Varieties of Thyme, Sage, and Rofe-'^' H.Land. 

 mary. The Brook hkewife οϊ ΕΓφα which flows from It and 

 waters the Gardens of ymc^i?, together with it's Plantations of 

 Plum ' and Date Trees, hath it's Banks adorned with feveral 

 Species of Brooklime, Lyfimach'ta, Water Crefs, Bettany, and 

 other aquatic Plants ; all of them very like thofe that are the 

 Produce oi England. And indeed the whole Scene of Vegeta- 

 bles and of the Soil which fupports them, hath not thofe par- 

 ticular Differences and Varieties, that we might exped: in two 

 fuch diitant Climates. For I do not remember to have feen 

 or heard of any Plants, but fuch as were Natives of other Places. 

 The Balfam Tree doth no longer fubfift, and the Mufa \ which 

 fome Authors' have fuppofedto be the CDudaim D'N-in) Man- 

 drakes 01 the Scriptures, is equally wanting•, neither could it, 

 I prefume, ever grow wild ^ and uncultivated as the 'Budaim 

 muit be fuppofed to have done. What the Chrlfl'ian Inhabi- 

 tants of Jerufalem take at prefent for that Fruit, are the Pods 

 of the Jelathon, a leguminous Plant, that is peculiar to the 

 Corn Fields, and, by the many DefcriptionsI had of it, (for it 



I Of the Fruit of this Tree is made the Oyl oi Zacconc. Vid. MuumheW<,]o\xn\. p. 86. 



Edit. 2. ^ The Tree is thus dcfcribcd, Cdfp- Batih. Pin. p. 444. Prunus Hiericomh'uu folio ^ 



anguflo fp'tnofj. Zaccon d'lchur quia in plunitie Hierichontis mti longe ab JEdibus Zacchxi crefcit. ■■ 



Caft. 2 ^yyc, Mouz., commonly called the Bananna or PUntain Tree. 3 Vid. Ludolphi \ 



Hift. ^thiof. I. I. cap. 9. & Comment, p. 139 &c. 4 And Reubemuent in the Days of Wheat i 



Harvefl, and found Mandrakes in the Field, and brought them tohisMother Leah. Gen. 30. 14. | 



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