. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. adds aspecies of nightshadef and of heath & to those which have been named. When he returned to Jerusalem he found occa-sion to notice in the court of a mosque the Florenceiris,h the common yellow jasmine, the almond-tree,and the elm-leaved In the court of thechurch of St. Marys Sepulchre he noticed a birdcherry, or cherry-laurel tree,k three fathoms the species of jasmine just named,1 Pa-lestine also possesses the Arabian™ and Spanishjasmines. The very beautiful Arabian species,which, wherever it
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. adds aspecies of nightshadef and of heath & to those which have been named. When he returned to Jerusalem he found occa-sion to notice in the court of a mosque the Florenceiris,h the common yellow jasmine, the almond-tree,and the elm-leaved In the court of thechurch of St. Marys Sepulchre he noticed a birdcherry, or cherry-laurel tree,k three fathoms the species of jasmine just named,1 Pa-lestine also possesses the Arabian™ and Spanishjasmines. The very beautiful Arabian species,which, wherever it will grow, is so much esteemedfor its highly odoriferous flowers, which it con-tinues to produce during the greater part of theyear, is an object of culture in Arabia, Egypt, andPalestine, as well as in more eastern this, and with the species indicated byHasselquist, as well as with the vine, the towns-people of Palestine delight the alleys and arboursin their gardens;° and there are few products ofnature more suitable or pleasant for this use. We. [Arabian Jasmine. Jasmimum Sambac] a Chenopodium scoparia. b Chenopjdium maritimum. c Kalifruticosum (Salsola fruticosaf) glasswort. Irisflmentina. Rhus coriaria. k Prunus padus. Jasmimum fruticans. m J. sambac. J. grandiflorum. ° DArvienx, ii. 58. cclxx PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VII. more than expected to find in Palestine the common white jasmine,a which Parkinson supposesto have been originally brought from Syria into Spain, whence we obtained it; but not findingit named by any of our authorities, we dare not set it down. The straight branches of thejasmine and the cherry tree are much preferred by the Western Asiatics for the long stems oftheir tobacco pipes. Hasselquist took a journey to Bethlehem on the 19th April, and returned the next the
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