. A dictionary of the Bible .. . (Marg. thistle ), and in Ps. Iviii. 9 (A. V. thorns ).The plant in question is supposed to be Lycium En-ropaeum, or L. afrum (Box-thorn), both of whichspecies occur in Palestine (see Strand, Flor. 124, 125). Dioscorides (i. 119) thus speaksof the : The Rhamnus, which some callpersephoiiion, othevs, leucacuntha, the Ramans White-thorn, or Gerhalis, and the Carthaginians atadin,is a shrub which grows around hedges; it has erectbranches with sharp spines, like the oxyacantha(Hawthorn ?), but with small, oblong, thick, softleaves. Dioscorides
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . (Marg. thistle ), and in Ps. Iviii. 9 (A. V. thorns ).The plant in question is supposed to be Lycium En-ropaeum, or L. afrum (Box-thorn), both of whichspecies occur in Palestine (see Strand, Flor. 124, 125). Dioscorides (i. 119) thus speaksof the : The Rhamnus, which some callpersephoiiion, othevs, leucacuntha, the Ramans White-thorn, or Gerhalis, and the Carthaginians atadin,is a shrub which grows around hedges; it has erectbranches with sharp spines, like the oxyacantha(Hawthorn ?), but with small, oblong, thick, softleaves. Dioscorides mentions three kinds ofrhamnus, two of which are identified by Sprengel,in his Commentary, with the two species oi Lyciummentioned above.* See Belon, Obsei-vations dePlus. Sing. &c., ii. ch. 78 ; Rauwolff, Trcw. ch. 8 ; Prosper Alpinus, De Plant. 21; Celsius, Hieroh. i. p. 199. The Arabic s ^ of this plant (JslsV aiwl) is identical withthe Hebrew; but it was also known by the name of Ausej. (j;svw(»i. Lycium Europamm is a native of the south ofEurope and the north of Africa; in the Grecianislands it is common in hedges {English Cyclop. » In his Hist. Eei Herb., however, he refers the pafi-vosto the Zizyphi^s vulgaris. THOENS AND THISTLES 1491 Lycium ). See also the passages in Belon andKauwolff cited above. 2. Chedek (plH : &Kav0a, aijs ^K-rpdiywv :spina, ptaliurus) occurs in Prov. xv. 19, The wayof the slothful is as an hedge of Chedek (A. V. thorns), and in Mic. vii. 4, where the A. V. has brier. The Alexand. LXX., in the former pas-sage, interprets the meaning thus, The ways ofthe slothful are strewed with thorns. Celsius(^Hieroh. ii. 35), referring the Heb. term to the Arabic Chadak (o»X2»), is of opinion that somespinous species of the Solarium is intended. TheArabic term clearly denotes some kind of Solanum ;either tlie S. melongela, var. esculentum, or theS. Sodomeum (apple of Sodom). Both thesekinds are beset with prickles; it is haidly proba
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