PLyVNTS OF GREECE. 



249 



72. Salvia Officinalis. The apples, as they are called, or the 

 tumour on this plant, (pciCKou.r,Xi^,^ the effect of the puncture of a species 

 of cvnips, are made into a conserve with honey. These excrescences 

 are also found on Salvia pomifera. 



73. Dipsacus Sylvestris, vifojif,a.Tri. The water collected in the 

 cavity of the leaves is used as a cosmetic by the Greek girls. 



74. Iris Graminea. The root of the Iris is used as a cosmetic and 

 is dried and powdered, and rubbed on the cheek. In Cyprus it is 

 called QoupSiXiiTi, evidently a corruption from the Italian Fior di Lis. It 

 is sometimes called y.fuoc, the name properly applied to Liliumalbum. 



75. Thapsia Villosa. The young leaves are gathered among the 

 plants that form the ayfua. Xux^va. The expressed juice of the flowers 

 is used with the Verbascum blattaria to dye yellow the wool which is 

 manufactured into the coarse carpets called T^evicctg. 



76. Anethum Foeniculum. The tops are used in preserving the 

 green olives, and are chopped and served up with the Octopodia. 



77. Cuscuta Europaea, one of the Greek names in Zante, imports "the 

 thread spun by the Nereids," xi^spai^o/ei-caTa. From thetwistingandtwin- 

 ing of the stems, it is compared by the Greeks to the dishevelled hair 

 of the Nereids; they also call it MuXiti TVjg Uavxyiag, " the hair of the Vir- 

 gin." At Constantinople it is named IttSvuov, the ancient word in Dios- 

 corides, and is given with Artemisia Pontica [d^lvQ.ov) in fevers. 



78. Verbascum Thapsus, (pxouo^. The dried flower stalk is used 

 on St. John's day, dipped in oil, as a torch. The saint from the bon- 

 fires used on this day is called "Ayiog luccwvi? A(X[ji,'7ra,Socfir;g. 



79. Daucus Nobilis. The churches, particularly the pavements are 

 adorned with this plant during Easter. Crosses also are made of it, 

 and put behind the door from Easter Sunday to the Ascension. The 

 leaves are used in culinary preparations for dressing the eels. An oil 

 also is made from the berries. 



Notes by the Editor. 



72. See Belon's remarks on the Pommes de Sauge in Crete, lib. i. c. 1 7. and Tournefort, 

 Letter ii. " In Creta ac etiam in quibusdani Apuiias et Calabriae locis, Salvia in cacumine 

 gignit tubercula qusedam, gallarum instar, subaibida." Dios. Mathiol. 878. 



77- See Dii Cange in v. NspaSsj. 



K K . 



