E have included in the previous pages all the flowers and fruits mentioned in Scripture. We have presented some which are doubtless uncertain; but about twenty-two or twenty-three have so much to distinguish them from the rest and to identify them with ancient varieties that considerable confidence may be placed in the opinions expressed that they are the same with those of Scripture times and reference.

But numbers of flowers, and some fruits not belonging to trees, have been found on the hills and in the valleys, which have never yet been mentioned, either in the Scriptures or in botanical works. Many, however, have been introduced into the country and spread over it from various causes,-some of which have been already noticed in our introductory chapters Some have been transplanted from Europe by visitors.

In the final plate (VI.) we have three which might be considered representatives of three great classes of interest, the classic, the scriptural, and simply the botanical, and of three