A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton.

  • John Barton
Date:
1827
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Credit: A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Promise,” bounded on the north by Mount Lebanon, still famed for its majestic Cedars. The Cedar of Lebanonthough now culti- vated as an ornamental tree in many parts of the world, has not been found wild except in the mountain from which it derives its name. Again crossing the desert to the extremity of the Red Sea, we find a narrow tract of culti- vated country along its eastern shore, extending to Yemen, the Happy, or Fertile Arabia, the country of balm, frankincense, and myrrh. From Arabia the Ralm-tree was first carried to Judaea, as Josephus assures us, by the queen of Sheba, as a present to Solomon; where, being afterwards cultivated for the sake of its fragrant and medicinal juice, particularly on Mount Gilead, it acquired the name of Balm of Gilead. Frankincense and myrrh also consist of the dried juices of trees: the same may be said of Gum Arabic, which is procured from a species of Mimosa, growing on both sides of the Red Sea, as well as in Senegal, and other parts of Africa. The Mimosa family is a very numerous one, all of them natives either of the tropical countries, or of the warmer part of the tem- perate zone. Some of them have the remark- able property of folding up and drooping their * Plaits Cedrus.
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