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THE MUSTARD TREE. 
Dr. Lindley that he had seen specimens of the plant collected by Bove near Mount 
Sinai. Captains Irby and Mangles also mention meeting with the same plant as they 
advanced towards Kerak from the southern extremity of the Dead Sea. Mr. Ameuny 
further informed Dr. Eoyle that the Khardal is found in the neighbourhood of 
Jerusalem, and most abundantly on the banks of the Jordan and round the Sea of 
Tiberias." 
"The Doctor concluded his interesting paper, of which we give but a brief 
summary, by stating, that notwithstanding the absence of authentic specimens, he 
felt no doubt that Salvadora Persica is the true Mustard tree of Scripture, * as it 
has a small seed, which produces a large tree, with numerous branches, in which the 
birds of the air take shelter ; that the seed is possessed of the same properties, and 
is used for the same purposes as Mustard is with us, and has a name Khardal, of 
which Sinapi is the true translation, and which, moreover, grows abundantly on the 
very shores of the Sea of Galilee, where our Saviour addressed to the multitude the 
parable of the Mustard tree.' " * 
DESCRIPTION OF THE WOOD-CUT. 
a Branch of Sinapis Kaber, or Persian Mustard. 
b Flower of ditto. 
c Seed-pod of ditto. 
d Branch of Salvadora Pcrsica,or true Mustard tree. 
e Flower of ditto. 
/ Flower magnified. 
g Fruit of ditto. 
h Section of fruit, to show the seed. 
* Gard. Chron., 1844, 
