1. The Plant which afforded a shade unto _Jonah_,[189] mention'd by the name of Kikaion, and still retained at least marginally in some Translations, to avoid obscurity _Jerome_ rendred _Hedera_ or Ivy; which notwithstanding (except in its scandent nature) agreed not fully with the other, that is, to _grow up in a night_, or be consumed with a Worm; Ivy being of no swift growth, little subject unto Worms, and a scarce Plant about _Babylon_. [189] Jona 4. 6. _a Gourd_. [Sidenote: _Hyssope._] 2. That Hyssope is taken for that Plant which cleansed the Leper, being a well scented, and very abstersive Simple, may well be admitted; so we be not too confident, that it is strictly the same with our common Hyssope: The Hyssope of those parts differing from that of ours; as _Bellonius_ hath observed in the Hyssope which grows in _Judæa_, and the Hyssope of the Wall mention'd in the Works of _Solomon_, no kind of our Hyssope; and may tolerably be taken for some kind of minor Capillary, which best makes out the Antithesis with the Cedar. Nor when we meet with _Libanotis_, is it to be conceived our common Rosemary, which is rather the first kind thereof among several others, used by the Ancients. [Sidenote: _Hemlock._ Hosea 10. 4. Amos 6. 2.] 3. That it must be taken for Hemlock, which is twice so rendred in our Translation, will hardly be made out, otherwise than in the intended sense, and implying some Plant, wherein bitterness or a poisonous quality is considerable. [Sidenote: Paliurus.] 4. What _Tremelius_ rendreth _Spina_, and the Vulgar Translation _Paliurus_, and others make some kind of _Rhamnus_, is allowable in the sense; and we contend not about the species, since they are known Thorns in those Countries, and in our Fields or Gardens among us: and so common in _Judæa_, that men conclude the thorny Crown of our Saviour was made either of _Paliurus_ or _Rhamnus_. [Sidenote: Rubus.] 5. Whether the Bush which burnt and consumed not, were properly a _Rubus_ or Bramble, was somewhat doubtfull from the Original and some Translations, had not the Evangelist, and S. _Paul_ express'd the same by the Greek word Bάtos, which from the description of _Dioscorides_, Herbarists accept for _Rubus_; although the same word Bάtos expresseth not onely the _Rubus_ or kinds of Bramble, but other Thorn-bushes, and the Hipp-briar is also named Κυνοσβάτος, or the Dog-briar or Bramble. [Sidenote: Myrica. Cant. 1. 14.] 6. That _Myrica_ is rendred, Heath, sounds instructively enough to our ears, who behold that Plant so common in barren Plains among us: But you cannot but take notice that _Erica_, or our Heath is not the same Plant with _Myrica_ or Tammarice, described by _Theophrastus_ and _Dioscorides_, and which _Bellonius_ declareth to grow so plentifully in the Desarts of _Judæa_ and _Arabia_. [Sidenote: _Cypress._ Cant. 1. 14.]