There also by the rivers are found _Anthilis Marina_, _Visnaga_, the first _Apocymum_, and _Oleander_ with purple flowers, by the inhabitants call’d _Defle_, and a delicate kind of _Scabiosa Melissa Maluca_, and if you go to the gardens, you see _Heliotropium majus_, _Convolvulus folio acuto_, _Vitis nigra_, _Phaseolus Turcicus_, with yellow flowers, which still retain the ancient name of _Lubie_, _Lysimachia lutea_, and wild vines call’d _Labruscæ_, whereon nothing groweth but only the flowers, call’d _Ocnanthe_; and also a shrub like unto the _Polygonus_ of _Carol Clusius_, which climbs up into high trees, and hang down again from the twigs; and I verily believe they are the same with _Ephedra_, whereof _Pliny_ maketh mention in the seventh chapter of his twenty sixth book. When I went farther, with an intention to consider the plants that grew in the country, first came before me some _Sycomores_, whereof chiefly _Dioscorides_ and _Theophrastus_ make mention, and tell us of two sorts; and when I call’d these things to mind, I light of one of the second sort of _Sycomores_, whereof abundance grow in _Cyprus_, wherefore these wild figg-trees might be call’d, the one the _Cyprish Sycomore_-tree, and the other the _Egyptian Sycomore_-tree, according to the places where they are most frequent and fruitful. I found a great many of them: the _Moors_ and _Arabians_ call them _Mumeitz_, they are as great and as high as the white Mulberry-trees, and have almost the same leaves, but they are only somewhat rounder, and are also whole at or about the sides; they bear fruit not unlike to our figg-trees, only they are sweeter, and have no little seeds within, and are not so good; wherefore they are not esteem’d, and are commonly sold only to the poorer sort of people; they grow in all fields and grounds, as you may see by the words of the second book of the _Chronicles_ ix. 27. _And the king made silver in ~Jerusalem~ as stones, and Cedar-trees made he as the Sycomore-trees that are in the low plains in abundance_. _Zacheus_ did climb upon such a one when he had a great mind to see our Saviour. _Essaias_ also maketh mention of them in his ninth chap. vers. 10, and _Amos_ in his seventh chap. vers. 14, where he saith of himself: _I was a herds-man, and a gatherer of Sycomore-fruit_. These two sorts are very like one another, in stem, leaves, and fruit, only as the fruit of the one comes more out of the great stems and great twigs, so that of the other does the same, but not out of the stems and twigs immediately, but out of twigs or sprouts without leaves of the length of five or six inches, whereon they grow sometimes very thick, and in a bunch together. These trees bear fruit three or four times yearly, which are small, of an ash-colour, oblong, round, like Prunes, and are found upon the trees almost all the year long. Hereabouts also grow many thorns, whereof is made mention in Scripture, by the inhabitants call’d _Hauseit_, and by the _Arabians