Essay On the Trees And Shrubs of the Ancients Being the Substance of Four Lectu
Essay On the Trees And Shrubs of the Ancients Being the Substance of Four Lectu
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28. * Dierbach, Flora Apiciana, Heidelberg, 1831.
b Lib. Xxv. C. 106.
H 2 100 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT.
spring, and ye/>a>t>, aged, because it is white in the spring. Its head is divided into a number of downy filaments (Spina) protruding like a thistle ; hence it is called by Callimachus Acanthus, and by others Pappus.
This description agrees very well with some of the herbaceous sorts ofSenecto, such as our common Groundsel, except as to its turning white, or going to seed, in the spring. I...t must be recollected, however, that in warm climates, like Greece, it would come to seed earlier than with us.
GNAPHALIUM.
Two species of shrubby plants belonging to this genus are mentioned by Sibthorp, the best known of which is G. Stcechas, also called Helichrysum stce- chas, which occurs both in Greece and in Italy.
In Greece at present this plant is known by the name of a^apavdov (everlasting), one of those which Dioscorides assigned to it. This author states, that it is synonymous with 'RXiypvarov and \pvo-dv- 0[jLoi>, both expressive of the yellow colour of its petals ; adding, that it is used for chaplets, has a small yellowish white stem, erect and stout, leaves scattered like the 'Afiporovov, a blossom (KOfjLrjv} orbicular, of a golden yellow colour, spreading out in all directions like a parasol, and bearing a re- semblance to dry clusters of flowers, together with a slender root.
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28. * Dierbach, Flora Apiciana, Heidelberg, 1831.
b Lib. Xxv. C. 106.
H 2 100 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT.
spring, and ye/>a>t>, aged, because it is white in the spring. Its head is divided into a number of downy filaments (Spina) protruding like a thistle ; hence it is called by Callimachus Acanthus, and by others Pappus.
This description agrees very well with some of the herbaceous sorts ofSenecto, such as our common Groundsel, except as to its turning white, or going to seed, in the spring. I...t must be recollected, however, that in warm climates, like Greece, it would come to seed earlier than with us.
GNAPHALIUM.
Two species of shrubby plants belonging to this genus are mentioned by Sibthorp, the best known of which is G. Stcechas, also called Helichrysum stce- chas, which occurs both in Greece and in Italy.
In Greece at present this plant is known by the name of a^apavdov (everlasting), one of those which Dioscorides assigned to it. This author states, that it is synonymous with 'RXiypvarov and \pvo-dv- 0[jLoi>, both expressive of the yellow colour of its petals ; adding, that it is used for chaplets, has a small yellowish white stem, erect and stout, leaves scattered like the 'Afiporovov, a blossom (KOfjLrjv} orbicular, of a golden yellow colour, spreading out in all directions like a parasol, and bearing a re- semblance to dry clusters of flowers, together with a slender root.
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