Chap. 33.] THE FLOWEU or JOYE. 333 



chaplets, the male^^ plant and the female. The difFerence 

 consists in the leaves, those of the female plant being thinner, 

 more tapering, and narrower, and those of the male being of 

 an imbricated shape, the plant having a greater number of 

 branches. The blossom, too, of the male plant is more vivid 

 than that of the female : in both kinds it is late in making its 

 appearance, not till after the rising of Arcturus. 



The smell of the male conyza is more powerful than that 

 of the female plant : the latter, however, is of a more pene- 

 trating nature, for which reason it is that the female plant is 

 held in higher esteem for the treatment of the bites of animals. 

 The leaves of the female plant have exactly the smell of honey ; 

 and the root of the male has received the name of ** libanotis" 

 from some : we have already made mention^^ of it on a previ- 

 ous occasion. 



CHAP. 33. THE FLOWER OF JOVE. THE HEIIEEOCALLES. THE 



HELENIUM. THE PHLOX. PLANTS IN WHICH THE BEANCHES 

 AND ROOTS ARE ODORIFEROIJS. 



Of the following plants, too, it is only the leaves that are 

 employed for chaplets — the flower of J"ove,^° the amaracus, 

 the hemerocalles,-^ the abrotonum, the helenium,-- sisym- 

 brium,-^ and wild thyme, all of them ligneous plants, grow- 

 ing in a manner similar to the rose. The flower of Jove is 

 pleasing only for its colours, being quite inodorous ; which is 

 the case also with the plant known by the Greek name of 

 " phlox. "-^ All the plants, too, which we have just mentioned 

 are odoriferous, both in the branches and the leaves, with the 

 sole exception of wild thyme. -^ The helenium is said to have 



^8 Fee takes this to be the Inula viscosa of Desfontaines, and identifies 

 the other kind with the Inula pulicaria of Linnaeus. See 13. xx. cc. 63, 64. 



19 E. sx. c. 64. 



2'^ Supposed to be the same as the Agrostemma coronaria of Linnreus. 



-1 Spivngel identifies it with the Pancratium raaritimum of Linnaeus. 

 As described by Dioscorides, however, Fee takes it to be the Lilium Mar- 

 tagon, or Turk's-cap lily. See c. 90 of this Book. 



■-■- This is different from the Helenium of the Greeks, the Inula Hele- 

 nium of Linnaeus, mentioned in B. xv. c. 7. Spvengel identifies it with 

 the Teucrium Creticum of Linnaeus, the Cretan germander. 



23 See B. XX. c. 91. _ ^ 



-^ " Flame." Sprengel identifies it with the Agrostemma coronaria of 

 Linnaeus, making the flower of Jove to be the Agrostemma flos Jovis. 



"^ Fee remarks, that if thb is our Thymus serpyllum, this exception is 

 inexact. 



