. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. ped according to some more marked or popular characteristic than those whichdetermine their place in a scientific arrangement, we will here depart from the plan we have generally followed, for the sake ofbringing together the various thornyand prickly plants which are usuallyconnected in Scriptural notices. The various species of Rhamnus (in-cluding the Christs thorns) growingin Palestine have been noticed in a pre-ceding page. The black thorns or sloewe do not find named in the lists ormemoranda before us, although we
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. ped according to some more marked or popular characteristic than those whichdetermine their place in a scientific arrangement, we will here depart from the plan we have generally followed, for the sake ofbringing together the various thornyand prickly plants which are usuallyconnected in Scriptural notices. The various species of Rhamnus (in-cluding the Christs thorns) growingin Palestine have been noticed in a pre-ceding page. The black thorns or sloewe do not find named in the lists ormemoranda before us, although we havean impression that some modern travellerhas noticed its presence in the end of this month, Monro,hhigh up Lebanon, in the neighbourhoodof the snows, took notice of thorns, bear-ing a bright pink flower, which spreadthemselves upon the ground, or run overthe trees near them, like a creeper. Bar-berrv bushes were noticed by this tra-veller in the same locality. Brambles,although not very common, occur in par-ticular localities. Morison1 notices their. [Holy Bramble. Rubus Sanctus.] a Letters, ii. 122. d Cratevflis oryacantha. h Vol. ii. p. 18. t> Travels, 342, 447- c C. azarolus. f C. bryginia. Voyage, p. 1/9; also Richardson, ii. 442. Pinus sylvestris. 8 Prunus spinnsa. Chap. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—MAY. ccxlvii abundance in the neighbourhood of Sepphoris : the most valuable species of rubus, the rasp-berry, the country does not appear to possess, although there is reason to expect that it mightbe found in the mountains of Lebanon. The species more peculiar to Palestine, or at least toSyria, is the one which on that account bears the name of Rubus Sanctus, or holy bramble, ofwhich we introduce a cut, it being one of the few plants which, in the stricter sense of , are natives of Palestine, or which, at least, are more common in that country than inany other. This species of rubus is the only one that occurs in Russells catalogue of theAlepp
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