iv.] OF THE ANCIENTS. 115 



islands near Hieres, in France, the latter were 

 called by the ancients Stoechades. The word Lavan- 

 dula does not occur in any Classical writer. 



SALVIA. 



Sibthorp enumerates no less than twenty species 

 of Salvia, of which, however, only three are shrubs, 

 viz. S. officinalis \ pomifera, and calycina. In Italy 

 the only shrubby species is S. officinalis. This is 

 identified by Sibthorp with the eXtXicrfyaKov of 

 Dioscorides, described by him in the 3rd Book 

 of his M. M.\ and by Pliny k , as possessing a power- 

 ful smell ; adding, that it is considered to be the 

 same as his Salvia, a plant like to Mint in appear- 

 ance, white and aromatic. 



I have already pointed out the probability of 

 M. Dumolin's suggestion, that the Salvia sclarea, 

 or Clary, of the moderns is the Baccharis of the 

 ancients '. 



THYMUS. 



Eleven frutescent species are noticed by Sib- 

 thorp, but those alluded to in ancient writers were 

 chiefly the common herbaceous kinds, which are 

 so abundant in the southern parts of Europe. 



Thymus vulgar is seems to have been known by 

 the name of QVIJLOV in Greek, and Thymus in Latin ; 

 Thymus serpyllum denoted by that of epjrvXXos 



' Walpole's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 246. j c. 38. 



k Lib. xxii. c. 71. ' Roman Husb., p, 280. 



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