Ccesarea. 
446 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, appearance of its numerous and extensive ruins. 
The remains of this city, although still consi- 
derable, have long been resorted to as a quarry, 
whenever building-materials were required at 
Acre. Djezzar Pasha, as it has been already 
mentioned, brought from hence the columns of 
rare and beautiful marhle, as well as the other 
ornaments, of his palace, bath, fountain, and 
mosque, at Jlcre, The place at present is 
inhabited only by jackals and beasts of prey. 
As we were becalmed during the night, we 
heard the cries of these animals imtil day- 
III. A minute, nearly stemless, umbelliferous plant, seldom rising to 
an inch in height, with simple linear leaves a little hispid at the 
ed^es ; the fruit hispid, as in Caucalis, but the flowers and the 
whole habit of the plant as in Bupleurum; to which genus we 
have added it, by the name of Bupleurum minimum; and" tlTe 
more willingly, as two other species, the Bupleurum setnicom- 
jmsitum of LinncEus, and the Bupleurum procumhens oi Desfon- 
apv taines, have also seeds more or less hispid. Bupleurum subacaule, 
' ramis quadrangulis brevissimis ; Joins subline aribus margine asperis; 
involucello pcnfaphyllo umbelluld vix breviore ; fructu kispidissimo. 
IV. A small downy annual species of ScaJiioM*; ScABios a, Linn, about 
five inches in height ; the leaves pinnatifid, with their lobes di- 
stant from each other ; the heads of flowers upon long peduncles, 
with a five-leaved common calyx ; the flowers purple, unequally 
five-cleft, not radiating; the seeds with a downy plume of about 
fifteen rays. Not only the leaves, peduncles, and common calyx, 
but even the outside of the flowers, are downy. We have called it 
ScABiosA DIVARTCATA. Scabiosa pnlescens , annua 1 eorollulis quin- 
quefidis laeinUs intEqualibui : calycis lacyniis septenis, inesqualibus, 
lanceolatis ; corona obsoletd, pttppo plumoso ; foliis pinnati/idis. 
