Although its leaves are very small and scanty, it nevertheless forms an agreeable shade. It is abundant in Palestine, growing in rocky places and ravines, and is common round the Dead Sea and deserts of Syria. In many places in the Wilderness it is the only bush that affords shade. Its roots, like those of our common broom, are nauseous in the extreme, and even to a degree poisonous, therefore we may reasonably suppose they were not the Juniper roots eaten for meat, mentioned in Job; the part eaten may, however, have been a species of Cynomorium, which grows on the roots of the Retam in the same manner as the broom rapes (Orobancha), grow on the broom roots in this country, and as Cynomorium coccineum has been observed growing in abundance on the roots of the Retama in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea, and as it, or an allied species, is eaten in times of scarcity, especially in the Canary Islands, it seems quite probable that it was the "Juniper roots" alluded to in Job. Cynomorium coccineum belongs to the family Balanophoreæ, of which there are about thirty known species, most of which are Fungus-like parasites, chiefly growing on the roots of other plants. C. coccineum is cylindrical and fleshy, about a foot in height. of a red colour, covered with imbricate scales in the place of leaves, and bearing inconspicuous 135 known as sup Ita. It les that t where by the making quality, .etween apters nomy, times, of the .de of table r's to abic, rees, the and the inet Although its leaves are very small and scanty, it nevertheless forms an agreeable shade. It is abundant in Palestine, growing in rocky places and ravines, and is common round the Dead Sea and deserts of Syria. In many places in the Wilderness it is the only bush that affords shade. Its roots, like those of our common broom, are nauseous in the extreme, and even to a degree poisonous, therefore we may reasonably suppose they were not the Juniper roots eaten for meat, mentioned in Job; the part eaten may, however, have been a species of Cynomorium, which grows on the roots of the Retam in the same manner as the broom rapes (Orobancha), grow on the broom roots in this country, and as Cynomorium coccineum has been observed growing in abundance on the roots of the Retama in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea, and as it, or an allied species, is eaten in times of scarcity, especially in the Canary Islands, it seems quite probable that it was the "Juniper roots' " alluded to in Job. Cynomorium coccineum belongs to the family Balanophoreæ, of which there are about thirty known species, most of which are Fungus-like parasites, chiefly growing on the roots of other plants. C. coccineum is cylindrical and fleshy, about a foot in height. of a red colour, covered with imbricate scales in the place of leaves, and bearing inconspicuous |