116 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT. 



by Theophrastus m , and Serpyllum (a serpendo] by 

 Pliny". 



Thymus zygis, Sibth., one of his frutescent species, 

 is so called from being supposed to be the Ztvyt? 

 of Dioscorides , which he distinguishes from 'Ep- 

 TrvXXov by its greater size, and which, as it grows 

 in mountainous regions, he calls Wild Thyme. 

 Acynos graveolens, the Thymus graveolens of L., is 

 supposed by Fraas to be the Tpayopiyavov of 

 Dioscorides p . 



MOLUCELLA. 



One frutescent species is noticed by Sibthorp, 

 but it seems impossible to identify it with any 

 ancient plant. It is, indeed, of rather local oc- 

 currence, namely, in Cyprus. Though not noticed 

 by Manetti, it is met with in some parts of Italy. 



PRASIUM. 



The same remark applies to that genus, of which 

 P. mafus, noticed by Sibthorp in the Peloponnesus, 

 the coasts of Caria, and Zante, is frutescent. 



STACHYS. 



Three shrubby species are mentioned as oc- 

 curring in Greece, but it seems difficult to refer 

 them to any plants noticed by the ancients, al- 

 though Sibthorp has identified the commonest, 

 viz. S. palcestina, with the ^TCL\VS of Dioscorides. 

 The latter, indeed, is the name of a shrub men- 



01 yi - 2- " xx. 90. iii. 46. p iii. 35. 



