in.] OP THE ANCIENTS. 97 



hollow stem, having a powerful smell and berries 

 like those of the Ivy, growing in wild and moun- 

 tainous countries. This may possibly be the 

 Honeysuckle of modern botanists ; but the KAu- 

 /zei/of and HepiKXv/jLevov of Dioscorides, Sibthorp 

 is disposed to regard as the Convolvulus arvensis, and 

 C. sepium, of modern botanists. 



Dumolin conjectures that a plant named A'iyi\os 

 by Theocritus was the Honeysuckle 



Tat fiev e'/icu KVTKTOV re Kal AiyiAoi* alyes f8ovri, 

 Kal "Si^ivov irartovTi, Kal tv Ko/xdpotcrt Kf^yvrai s . 



' For my goats browse upon the Cytisus and the ^Egiloa, 

 and feed upon the Schinus, and lie amongst the 

 Comari.' 



This plant is also alluded to by Babrius in his 

 Fables* as inhabiting the mountains. 



But the chief ground for identifying it with the 

 Honeysuckle is that both plants are regarded as 

 a favourite food for goats, whence our English 

 Honeysuckle is called L. caprifolium. This, how- 

 ever, seems scarcely sufficient to warrant the name 

 being assigned to it. 



SCABIOSA. 



One species, viz. S. pterocephala, occurring in 

 Greece, is shrubby, but we are unable to refer to 

 it any plant named by classical writers. 



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ERNODEA. 



The only shrub mentioned by Sibthorp in Greece 

 as belonging to the Madder family is the Ernodea 



Idyl. v. ver. 128. Fab. iii. v. 3. 



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