. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. a Sol. Song, ii. 18. b Sol. Song, ii. 15. c Sol. Song, vi. 11. (l Nat Hist, xviii. 7- Chap. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—MAY. cclv A man brought some -wheat to parch, and, to our surprise, we observed the ears of anunusual size, one of them exceeding in dimensions two of the ordinary, and on one Legh procured some, which he brought to England, and it has succeeded very well. Wehave since learned that it was not wholly unknown to botanists. It is a bearded wheat. Itis evidently to this that Laborde also alludes
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. a Sol. Song, ii. 18. b Sol. Song, ii. 15. c Sol. Song, vi. 11. (l Nat Hist, xviii. 7- Chap. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—MAY. cclv A man brought some -wheat to parch, and, to our surprise, we observed the ears of anunusual size, one of them exceeding in dimensions two of the ordinary, and on one Legh procured some, which he brought to England, and it has succeeded very well. Wehave since learned that it was not wholly unknown to botanists. It is a bearded wheat. Itis evidently to this that Laborde also alludes in stating:— There is to be found at Kerek aspecies of hundred wheat which justifies the text of the Bible against the charges of exaggera-tion of which it has been the object. Of one of these ears of corn a figure is given, contrastedwith a grain of English wheat, which, it must be confessed, has not been very fairly this we have added an ear of the bearded wheat, which is the only kind grown in AsiaMinor. Captain Mangles annexes to his engraving the foll
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