JERUSALEM. 
37; 
On the following morning, July the eleventh, chap. 
we left Jerusalem by the Gate of Damascus, on the ■ - --^ '.■ 
north-ivest side, to view the extraordinary burial- of Sf *"^' 
place erroneously called the " Sepulchres of the ^'"°*- 
Kings of Judahf distant about a mile from the 
walls. This place does not exhibit a single sepul- 
chral chamber, as in the instances so lately de- 
scribed, but a series of subterraneous chambers, 
extending in different directions, so as to form a 
sort of labyrinth, resembling the still more 
wonderful example lying westward oi Jlexandria 
in Egijpt, by some called the " Sepulchres of the 
Ptolemies'' Each chamber contains a certain 
number of receptacles for dead bodies, not being 
much larger than our coffins, but having the 
more regular form of oblong parallelograms ; 
thereby differing from the usual appearance pre- 
sented in the sepulchral crypts of this country, 
where the soros, although of the same form, is 
generally of very considerable size, and resem- 
bles a large cistern. The taste manifested in 
it, from the remarkable spur near the base of the seed, Sywphytu.m 
CALCARATUM. The Stems are very slender, and crooked ; the leaves an 
inch to an inch and a half in length ; the flowers upon short jedicles, 
turned to one side, with the calyx nearly half an inch long, but shorter 
than the bract at the base of the pedicle. 
Symphytum cauUbus Jlexuosis debilibus ; Joliis lato-lanceolatis, integris^ 
ciliatis, lursutis; racemis bracteutis secundis laxis ; bracteis cblongo-lanceo- 
latis; coroltis calyce hirsuto brevioribits, aciUis; se7ninibus obtuse iriangitlis 
ealcaratis, scabris. 
