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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 44.

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Specimen Page from the ILLUSTRATED BIBLE TREASURY — Portion of Our Bible — DICTIONARY OF PLANTS, ANIMALS, ETC. Copyrighted by Thos. Nelsons & Sons, 1896. TREASURY OF BIBLE SCIENCE.

CAPER PLANT. seeds, separated from each other by a fleshy pulp. From the large quantity of sweet mucilage they contain, they form a good and agreeable food for animals, and are largely exported as a feeding stuff for stock. The pods are sometimes called locust beans and St. John's bread; from the notion that they were used as food by John the Baptist; but this is an error.

CASSIA CINNAMON. aromatic root is largely dug up in the autumn, and is exported to China to be used as an ingredient in the incense in the temples. It is specified as one of the articles of Syrian commerce (Ezek. 27, 19). The cassia of Ps. 45, 8 is the translation of another Hebrew word, but most probably it refers to the same plant.

With separate flower, pod (external aspect, longitudinal and transverse sections), and two seeds.

CASSIA.—One of the ingredients of the holy anointing oil (Ex. 30, 24), and not the same as cinnamon, which was another ingredient. Some, however, hold that cassia was obtained from another species of cinnamon, and that the barks of both Cinnamomum zeylanicum and C. cassia were used in making the holy oil. It is more probable that the revisers are right when they suggest in the margin that the plant is costus. This is obtained from an Indian composite plant called Aplotaxis lappa, which grows on the mountains of the Cashmere Valley, where the

CEDAR.—This is generally used in Scripture for the famous cedar of Lebanon. This tree was supposed to be confined to the grove on Lebanon usually visited by travellers, but it grows in other places in that range of mountains as well as on the Taurus Mountains, on the heights of Cyprus, and on the Atlas Mountains. It is a noble tree, the glory of the vegetable kingdom in Palestine, and is consequently used throughout Scripture as the symbol of grandeur, might, loftiness, and ever-increasing expansion. Though it grows rapidly, it produces a compact, firm, durable, and odoriferous wood, which was used in the successive temples at Jerusalem. Layard brought to England fragments of cedar joists from the palace of Nebuchadnezzar, and cuneiform inscriptions have since shown that this was obtained from Lebanon. The cedar of the Pentateuch (Lev. 14, 4, etc.) is probably an aromatic juniper, which was used as the stalk of the hyssop sprinkler.

CAROB TREE.

CHESTNUT TREE.—In the R.V. this is trans-

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CHESTNUT OR PLANE TREE. Separate staminate flower with one petal, and below separate pistil with one petal.

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