. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . by the flower, are as follow: calyx five-parted, corolla with a short tube, and bell-shapedthroat, the limb quinquifid, somewhat bilabiate. Sta-mens four, didynamous, with the rudiments of a fifth MUSTARD. 181 stamen. Stigma bilamellate. Capsule oblong, four-celled, two-valved. Seeds numerous. MUSTARD. The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustardseed, which a man took, a
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . by the flower, are as follow: calyx five-parted, corolla with a short tube, and bell-shapedthroat, the limb quinquifid, somewhat bilabiate. Sta-mens four, didynamous, with the rudiments of a fifth MUSTARD. 181 stamen. Stigma bilamellate. Capsule oblong, four-celled, two-valved. Seeds numerous. MUSTARD. The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustardseed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: whichindeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown,it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree,so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thebranches thereof. Matt. xiii. 31, 32. Our Lords words on this occasion are to be inter-preted by popular use; and that there was a speciesof mustard, (sinapis,) or, at least, what the orientalscomprehended under that name, which rose to thesize of a tree, appears from the writings of the rab-bis, men who will not be suspected of partialitywhen their testimony happens to favour the writers ofthe New Testament.—(Dr. G. Campbell.). A. B. Lambert, f. r. s. etc., in the Linnean Trans-actions, vol. xvii. p. 449, contends that it is the sinapisnigra of botanists. u I am conviced, he says, itis the mustard now in daily use among us. Mustardseed was used by the Romans and other nations of 17 182 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. antiquity in medicine, as it is at this day. I shallendeavour to prove from the New Testament that thesinapis nigra is the plant our Saviour alluded to inMatt. xiii. 31, 32 ; Mark iv. 31, 32. Our Saviour is not to be understood as speakingscientifically or specifically, when he said the small-est of seeds; he was speaking only comparatively,and meant no more than a small seed ; and when hespoke of it as the greatest of herbs, and becoming atree, he may be supposed to have meant no more
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