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

 Ranunculuffes^ Colchicas, and Mandrakes. Several Pieces of 

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

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

 elegant Species of the Blew Lilly , the fame with Morifons 

 Lilium 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 colle6l the Plants and other Curiofities of 

 that Country. However^ in the Beginning of A/^rc/j, I could 

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

 and indeed feveral other Places in the Road to Jerufalem, 

 were particularly diftinguifhed by feveral beautiful Beds of 

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



The Mountains o^ ^Inarentania afford a great Quantity o^nePiam of 

 yellow Tol'mm, and fome Varieties of Thyme, Sage, and Rofe-'^''^"^'""^' 

 mary. The Brook likewife of Elifia which flows from It and 

 waters the Gardens of j^mc/:?^, together with it's Plantations of 

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

 Species of Brooklime, Ly/imachia, 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 expert in two 

 fuch diftant 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 fuppoied to be the VDudalm o'tjin) Man- 

 drakes of the Scriptures, is equally wanting; neither could it, 

 I prefume, ever grow wild ^ and uncultivated as the Dudaim 

 muft be fuppofed to have done. What the Chrifttan Inhabi- 

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

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

 Corn Fields, and, by the manyDefcriptionsI had of it, (for it 



I Of the Fruit of this Tree is made the Oyl o( Zaccone. Vid. Muundreirf.]o\irn. p. 86. 

 Edit. 2. The Tree is thus defcribcd, Cafp. Bmh. Pin. p. 444. itmus Hiertcontbka folio 

 angufto fpinofo. Zaccon dic'itm quia, in plan'ttie Hierichontis non longe ab Aidtbus Zacchxi crefcit. 

 Caft. ^jy^o, Mouz., commonly called the Ban a ma or Platitain Tree. 3 Y id. Ludolphi 

 Hift. Mthiop. l.i. cap. 9. & Comment, p. 139 &c. 4 AndReubemuent in the Days of Wheat 

 Harvcfi, and found J^andrakes in the Field, and brought them tobisMotber Leah. Gen. 30. 14. 



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