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; $d of a hard compact limestone. Hasselquist relates, that it is. 
a continuation of a species of territory peculiar to the same 
meridian through several countries.* He found here the same 
plants which he had seen,in Judea; and these, he says, were 
not common elsewhere. Among the .more rare, he mentions 
the Kali fruticosmn. Hereabouts we found that curious plant, 
the Hedysarum Alhagi ,j together with the Psoralea Palcesti* 
na of Linnaeus, and a new species of Pink.\ This last, from 
the interesting circumstance of its locality, we have named Dr* 
an*tH us Nazar^us. About a mile to the southeast of Se* 
plioury, is the celebrated fountain so often mentioned in the 
history of the Crusades.§ The dress of the Arabs, in this part 
of the Holy Land, and indeed throughout all Syria, is simple 
and uniform : it consists of a blue shirt, descending below the 
knees, the legs and feet being exposed, or the latter sometimes 
covered with the ancient cothurnus , or buskin.|| A cloak is 
worn, of very coarse and heavy earners hair doth, almost uui- 
* Travels tn>;he East, p. 154. Land. 1768. 
See Forskal’s Flora, p. 136. 
fin this journey between Acre and Nazareth we ’discovered three new species,; 
beside other rare plants, mentioned in the appendix. The new species are, 
I A non descript species of wild bugloss, (lycopsis Linn.) with lanceolate blunt leaves, 
from two to three inches in length, and the flowers sessile, pointing to one side, 
in curved close racemes at the ends of the branches; the bracts linear, longer than 
the blossoms, and, as well as"every other part of the plant, excepting the blos¬ 
soms and roots, hispid, with strong pungent bristles. We have named it lycopsis 
confertiflora. Lycopsis f olHs lc?igo lanceolatis calloso-hispidis, integris ; minis 
dijfusis decumbentibusve dspenimis ; floribus rarxmosis, imbricatis, sessilibus ; co* 
To’lis calyce longioribus ; hr adds elongatis lanccolato-iincarihus\ seminibus supra 
glabris , nitidis , basi dcnticulati?. 
II. The new species of pink mentioned above, (dianthiis Linn.) with slender stems, 
a foot or more in height, and very narrow three-nerved leaves, about an inch ami 
a half long; the dowers solitary, embraced at the base by six ovate sharp-pointed* 
bracts, the petals unequally six-toothed at the end. This we have named 
djanthus NAZARiEUs. Dianlhus caulibus parum rcmosis simpUcibnsve fiorib-vs 
soliiariis ; squamis calycinis tubo dimidio brevioribus , ovaii$,acv.ii r, sapivs adpre.ssis % 
pdalis sex dentatis ; foliis elongatis subulato-lincaribiis , trinerviis, margine scabris. 
III. A curious non descript species of stone-crop (sednrn Linn.) with lanceolate fleshy 
leaves, the flowering stems near ly erect, from above fourteen to eighteen inches, 
or more in height, and often leafless: the flowers yellow, in a sort of umbel, 
composed of close unequal racemes;, the petals six, lanceolate and acute, with 
the same number of capsules, and twelve stamens. "We have named it 'sebum 
ALTUM. Stdum foliis lanceolatis aeutis integertimis basi soluiis; cauHbus jlorige- 
fis ereciis, sapius denudatis ; raesmis s-ubfdstigiatis ; pcdicdlis secundis brevibus ; 
fori bus hexapetalis hexagynis ; petalis lanceolatis ; calycibns aeutis. 
N.B. The squamae at the base of the germ are wanting in this species, which, 
with the S. ochroleucvm of Dr. Smith, and the S. aliissimum of M. Poiret, ought, in an 
artificial system, to form a separate genus from sedum in the class dodeeandria; both 
:heir habit and inflorescence keeping them very distinct from sempervivum. 
; Almost all the writers, who have given an account of the Holy Wars, mention 
this fountain : it served as a place of rendezvous for the armies belonging to the kings 
of .Jerusalem, particularly during the reign of Almerick and Baldw in the Fourth. 
Yid. Gesta Dei per Francos, in Histor. W. Tyr. lib. xx- c. 27. lib. xxii. c. 15, 19, 25. 
Hanov. 1611. William of Tyre speaks of it as between Sephoury and Nazareth : 
Convocatis Regni Principibus, juxta fontem ilium celeberrimum , qui inter Nazareth (t 
Sephorim esl. v 
•l) Nearer to Jerusalem, the ancient sandal is worn, exactly its it appears on 
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