Baaras
A marvellous plant known to the Arabs as the " Golden Plant," and which is supposed to grow on Mount Libanus, underneath the road which leads to Damascus. It is said to flower in the month of May, after the melting of the snow. At night it can be seen by torchlight, but through the day it is invisible. It was held to be of great assistance to alchemists in the transmutation of metals. It is alluded to by Josephus. (Lib. VIII., Chap. 25.)