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Lord Byron indeed relates, —**In the Levant it is the 
custom to strew flowers on the bodies of the dead, and in 
the hands of young persons to place a nosegay.” 
It will be here unnecessary to enter upon any details as 
to the many uses and benefits which plants, and in particular 
the Classical Plants, have afforded to the fine arts; and I 
will only observe in the words of a learned writer, —**the 
Rose is the essential part of all the ornaments of the earlier 
Christian architecture; even the shape of the windows, doors, 
and towers, may be traced to it, as well as the accompanying 
decorations of flowers and leaves." 
Dioscorides has given a recipe for making Rose oil, 
(mo) zrour, lib. i. cap. 54. Desfontaines states, that the 
people of Tunis distil a delightfully fragrant essential oil, or 
ottar of Roses, from the flowers of the Musk Rose. Con- 
serve of roses is an elegant medicine. 
46. Crategus Azarolus.— Azarole ‘Thorn. 
It is, according to Stackhouse, Meoimii.n dvinday, Theoph. lib. 
iii. cap. 19. The fruit is eaten and called Lazzeruola, or 
Azzeruola. 
47, Aronia rotundifolia, Pers. (Pyrus Amelanchier, Willd.) 
Round-leaved Aronia, Bot. Mag. vol. 1. tab. 2430. 
Suny ArzEavdeere, Theoph. lib. ii. cap. 16, according to 
Sprengel; observed in the mountainous parts of Sicily. 
48. Cydonia vulgaris, Pers. (Pyrus Cydonia, Linn.)— Com- 
mon Quince. 
Kudduoc, "Theoph. lib. ii. cap. 3. apud Stachhousium; ubi 
Ergoulios, C. vulgaris, sylvestri statá interpretatur. 
The fruit, Dioscorides calls Kuóc»wew Ae, lib.i. cap. 161; 
and a second sort, 2rgovd/a, is mentioned, which is large and 
less useful in medicine, xuówe waru, Stesichori fragm. iv. 2. 
In Sicily, the Quince-tree is named Cotognu, and the apple, 
Mela Cotogna. 
MYRTACE. 
49, Myrtus communis.— Myrtle.— 7. Grae. vol. v. tab. 415. 
Mussi, Diosc. lib. i. cap. 156.— Muji/m, Theoph. lib. i. cap. 
