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Bjezzar Pacha to convey us t© Acre had not arrived,- and that 
boats laden with fruit were daily sailing thither, Captain Cub 
verhouse, fearful of detaining his frigate a moment after the 
supplies for the fleet had been completed, judged it prudent to 
engage a passage for us in one of these boats. We therefore 
took leave of our aged and respectable host, the English Con- 
sul; and upon the evening of July the fifteenth, after sun set, 
embarked for Acre, to avail ourselves of the land wind, which 
blows during the night, at this season of the year. By day 
break the next morning we were off the coast of Caesarea, and 
so near in with the land, that we could very distinctly perceive 
the appearance of its numerous and extensive ruins. The re¬ 
mains of this city, although still considerable, have long been 
resorted to as a quarry, whenever building materials were re¬ 
quired at Acre. Bjezzar Pacha, as it has been already men¬ 
tioned, brought from hence the columns of rare and beautiful 
marble, as well as the other ornaments, of his palace, bath, 
fountain, and mosque, at Acre. The place at present is in¬ 
habited only by jackals and beasts of prey. As we were be¬ 
calmed during the night, we heard the cries of these animals 
until day break. Pococke mentions the curious fact of the 
former existence of crocodiles in the river of Caesarea.* Per¬ 
haps there has not been, in the history of the world, an exam¬ 
ple of any city, that in so short a space of time rose to such an 
longiorihus; calycibus nudis margine laceris; corollse laciniis ovato-trianguiari- 
bus ; stylo pubeseente longissimo. 
H. A very small non-deseript prostrate species of St. John’s rvort, hypericum, Linn » 
with inversely ovate leaves and terminal flowers, and the teeth of the calyx en¬ 
tire at the margin;'. The stems are from one to four or five inches long, the leaves 
hardly the fourth of an inch, the blossoms yellow, rather more than half an inch 
across. We have called it hypericum tenf.llum. Hypericum prostratum, 
gjabrum; floribus terminalibus trigynis subcorymbpsis; calycis dentibus integer- 
rimis margine glandulosis; caulibusfiliformibus brevibus; foliis cuneato obovatis, 
punetatis glabris. 
HI. A minute, nearly stemless, umbelliferous plant, seldom rising to an inch in height, 
with simple linear leaves a little hispid at the edges; the fruit hispid, as in cauca- 
iis, but the flowers and the whole habit of tbe plant as in bupleurum; to which 
genus we have added it, by the name of bupleurum minimum; and the more 
willingly, as two other species, the bupleurum semicompositum of Linnaeus, 
and the bupleurum procumbens of Desfontaines, have also seeds more or less 
hispid. Bupleurum subacaule, ramis quadrangulis brevissimis ; foliis suhlineari- 
bus margine asperis; involucellopentaphyllo umbelluia vixbreviore; fructuhis- 
pidissimo. 
X*»» A small downy annual species of scabious ; scabiosa, Linn, about five inches in 
height; the leaves plnnatiiid, with their lobes distant from each other; the 
beads of flowers upon long peduncles, with a five leavqd common calyx ; the flow¬ 
ers 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 scabiosajdivaricata. 
Scabiosa pubeecens, annua; corollulis quinquefidis laciniis insequalibus ; calycis 
lacyniis. septemis, insequalibus, lanceolatis; coronal obsoieta, pappo plumose; 
foliis pinnatifidis. 
* Pococke’? Observations upon the East, vol. II. p. 58. Lend, 1745$ 
