10.2 THE TREES AND SHRUBS, &c. [LECT. in. 



frutescent. This one, however, does not figure in 

 Manetti's Catalogue. 



Three kinds of Centaury are mentioned by Pliny f . 

 The larger, called Chironium, as being believed to be 

 the plant by which the Centaur Chiron was cured, 

 has been identified by the older botanists with the 

 Centaurea Centaurium of L., but it seems to me 

 quite uncertain to which particular plants this 

 and the other two kinds alluded to by Pliny refer. 



CINERARIA. 



Sibthorp mentions one shrubby species in Greece, 

 viz. maritima, but does not identify it with any 

 ancient name. The same also occurs in Italy, but 

 we are unable to point to any plant noticed by the 

 writers of antiquity with which it can be referred. 



1 Lib. xxv. c. 30. 



