114 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT. 



by the name of &.ev$po\ifiavov at the present day. 

 Pliny describes the Libanotis, also, as he says, called 

 Rosmarinuin, as having a root like to that of the 

 Olusatrum, and a smell nowise differing from frank- 

 incense ; Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, all speak of it, 

 the first under the name of Ros, the two latter 

 under that of Rosmarimim. Columella f says that 

 it is a good food for bees. 



SATUREIA. 



Five species of Savory occurring in Greece rise 

 to the height of a shrub, but of these one only 

 extends to Italy, viz. S. montana. S. Thymbra is 

 identified with the Thymbra of Pliny, and the 

 Qv/jifBpa of Dioscorides ; it is a favourite plant 

 with the bees, and grows on Hymettus along with 

 another fruticose species of the same genus, viz. 

 S. capitata s , the QV/JIOS of Dioscorides, which is 

 traceable in the modern term GU/-UO or Qvfj.api. 



LAVANDULA. 



Three species of Lavender are noted by Sibthorp, 

 all three low shrubs, and in Italy one only, namely, 

 L. spica. Pliny mentions a herb called Stoechas* : 

 describing it as an odoriferous plant, with leaves 

 like the Hyssop, and with a bitter taste. Diosco- 

 rides speaks of it under the name of a-roLya.?, 

 and Sibthorp identifies this with the L. stcechas 

 which he describes. From its abundance on the 



' i\- 4. Sibthorp. ' Lib. xxvi. c. 27, and xxvii. 107. 



