236 ([return])
[ Hooker, in Dictionary of the Bible, ii. 684.]
237 ([return])
[ Tristram, Land of Israel, p. 82; compare Hooker, l.s.c.]
238 ([return])
[ This is Dr. Hooker’s description. Canon Tristram says of the styrax at the eastern foot of Carmel, that “of all the flowering shrubs it is the most abundant,” and that it presents to the eye “one sheet of pure white blossom, rivalling the orange in its beauty and its perfume” (Land of Israel, p. 492).]
239 ([return])
[ Ibid. p. 596.]
240 ([return])
[ Walpole, Ansayrii, iii. 298.]