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at every period of its growth, even when it is old and even when 

 it is drying. When it has dried up it is gathered together with 

 the dried grass and cast into the furnace. 



Its delicate beauty, and this, its ultimate fate, suggested to 

 Jesus the thought of his parable, and he points out as something 

 which the ordinary observer would not readily see, "yet I say 

 unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed 



like one of these which today is, and tomorrow is cast into 



the oven " 



Let us remember also that the daisy has a crown, which gives 

 special aptitude to the comparison with Solomon, the crowned 

 king. The words "the grass in the field" are surely and natur- 

 ally applicable to the Anthemis which grows like grass in Pales- 

 tine. The beauty of the Anthemts and its crown are particularly 

 noticeable in the morning's early dawn. 



Can we not imagine that the thoughts and emotions which 

 surged in Jesus did not always allow him easy sleep, that they 

 awakened him at the dawn, that he went out in the fields among 

 the hills walking in the early morning light over these fields of 

 the delicate Anthemis with its simple crowned beauty, and that 

 on some such morning there was born in the heart of Jesus this 

 beautiful parable? 



A NEW VARNISH-LEAF TREE FROM THE FLORIDA 



KEYS 



John K. Small. 



Two species of Dodonaea have heretofore been known to grow 

 in Florida. However, these were generally misinterpreted until 

 well within this century. A large-leaved kind — Dodonaea vis- 

 cosa — is rather rare on the coasts of the peninsula, while a 

 smaller-leaved shrub — D. jamaicensis — grows both in the coast- 

 al regions and in the interior. Several years ago a third 

 species was discovered on Big Pine Key. It was provisionally 

 referred to the West Indian D. Ehrenbergii*. Recent studies 

 show that it is not referrable to any tropical American species 

 and indicate that the Florida Key plant has not yet been des- 

 cribed. It may be named and described as: 



* Journal of the New York Botanical Garden 22: 50. 1921. 



