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67. Apargia tuberosa.—Tuberous-rooted Apargia. 
XévdgurArw.— Theoph. lib. vii. cap. 11, and the second species 
of xo0/23.:4.— Diosc. lib. ii. cap. 161, according to Sprengel. 
But Stackhouse considers the plant of Theophrastus to be 
Chondrilla juncea. 
68. Artemisia Pontica.—Pontic Wormwood. 
Aiviiv.— Diosc. lib. ii. cap. 26, also of Theoph. lib. vii. 
cap. 9. Stackhouse supposes it A. Absinthium. But since the 
A. Pontica is still called ds in Greece, (Sibth.) I would 
Suppose, without doubt, this plant to be the same with those 
of Dioscorides and Theophrastus. 
69. Chrysanthemum coronarium.—Garden Chrysanthe- 
mum. 
Xeuodvdewov.— Diosc. lib. iv. cap. 58. which is described as 
— púra rorvexidi, vôn mhna, ioxuedig orsAPorra, 1. e. leaves mul- 
tified, flowers yellow, very splendid. In Laconia, Dr. Sibthorp 
says it is now called xgwodbo».— This was one of the ancient 
ornamental or coronary flowers, orePavwrinc i. Many sorts 
of flowers and plants were formed into garlands, or chaplets. 
Theophrastus, Jib. vi. cap. 6, mentions that branches, or 
leaves, or flowers, of various shrubs, or herbaceous plants, 
either sweet-scented or scentless, either wild or cultivated» 
&c., were used in the coronary art. Pliny also states, Jib. xxi, 
eap. 2, Arborum enim ramis coronari in sacris certaminibus, 
moserat primum. Posted variari coeptum mistura versicolori; 
florümque invicem odores coloresque.— And from these two 
verses of Archestratus in Athenei Deipnosoph. lib. iii. cap. 22, 
we find flowers of every kind were in use:— 
Asst Ò orscvoies xáom auod, Oost) muzáčou 
Tlavrodamois, oig cy yaias wedov CACsov cubes. 
The bearing of flowers in honour of Proserpine, whom 
Pluto carried away as she was collecting flowers in the 
meadows of Enna, (read the beautiful tale in Ovid, Met. lib. 
v. fab. 6.) was a Sicilian festival, and called Avézogéga.—The 
Romanscelebrated asimilar festa (Florialia) in honour of Flora. 
From both of these, our English May-garlands and May- 
