Chap. 2S.] SHEUBS. 329 



CHAP. 26. THE CHETSOCOME, OE CHEYSITTS. 



The chrj-socome,^^ or chrysitis, lias no Latin appellation : it 

 is a palm in height, the flowers forming clusters of a golden 

 colour. The root of it is black, and it has a taste both rougli 

 and sweet : it is found growing in stony and umbrageous 

 spots. 



CHAP. 27. (9.) SHRUBS, THE BLOSSOMS OF WHICH AEE USED FOE 



CHAPLETS. 



Having thus passed in review nearly all the best-known 

 colours, we must now give our attention to the chaplets which, 

 are pleasing merely on account of the variety of their mate- 

 rials. Of such chaplets there ai'e two kinds, one composed of 

 flowers, the other of leaves. The flowers so employed, I may 

 say, are those of broom^^ — the 5'ellow blossom gathered from 

 it — the rhododendron,^' and the jujube,^® also known as the 

 tree of Cappadocia, which bears an odoriferous flower similar 

 to that of the olive. Among the brambles, too, we find the 

 cyclaminum growing, of which we shall have to speak more 

 at length on a future occasion :®^ its flower, which reflects the 

 hues of the purple of Colossae,^*^ is used as an ingredient in 

 chaplets. 



CHAP. 28. SHEUBS, THE LEAVES OF WHICH AEE USED FOE 



CHAPLETS. 



The leaves, also, of smilax and ivy are employed in chaplets ; 

 indeed, the clusters of these plants are held in the very highest 

 esteem for this purpose : we have already^^ spoken of them at 

 sufficient length when treating of the shrubs. There are also 

 other kinds of shrubs, which can only be indicated by their 



^5 " Golden locks," or " gold plant ;" probably the Chrysocoraa linosyris 

 of Linnseas ; though the name appears to have been given to numerous 

 plants. 



^^ See B. xvi. c. 69, B. xviii. c. 65, B. xix. c. 2, B. xxiv. c. 40 ; also 

 c. 42 of the present Book. 



8' The Nerium oleander of Linnseus. See B. xvi. c. 33, and B. xxiv. 

 cc. 47, 49. 



*« As to the Zizyphum, or jujube, see B. xv. c. 14. The flower, as Pliny 

 says, is not unlike that of the olive ; but Fee remarks, that it may at the 

 present day as justly be called the tree of Provence or of Italy, as in 

 ancient times " the tree of Cappadocia." 



•^9 B. XXV. c. 67. 90 See B. v. c. 41. 



91 See B. xvi. cc. 62 and 63, and B. xxiv. cc. 47 and 49. 



