A short account of the plants and plant products of the Bible : with references for use with Southall's biblical herbarium / edited by H.B. Tristram.

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1897
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    35. HEATH. —R,V. margin, Tamarisk. The Savin, or dwarf juniper, Juniperus sabina, the Arabic name of which is identical with the Hebrew. It is a stunted shrub bearing purple berries, and grows in the most barren and rocky parts of the desert. In Jeremiah xvii.. 6, this tree is the emblem of the man “ whose heart departeth from the Lord.” Jeremiah xlviii., 6, marginal reading in the A.V., “ naked tree ” 36. HUSKS. —R.V. margin, ‘the pods of the Carob tree,” Ceratonia siliqua. Known also as the locust bean and St. John’s bread, the latter from the [erroneous] notion that they were the locusts on which the Baptist fed. The tree is very common in Palestine, and the pods are found in enormous quantities in April and May, and are to be seen on the stalls in all Oriental towns ; much used for feeding animals, containing about 63 per cent, of sugar. The food which the swine did eat in the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke xv., 16). 37. HYSSOP.—Very many suggestions have been made as to the identity of this plant. A well-known authority considers it to be without doubt the caper plant, Capparis spinosa, which is found growing plentifully on rocks or ruins, or trailing on the ground. Other writers see no reason to doubt that the Origanum, the traditional hyssop,