124 THE TREES AND SHRUBS [LECT. 



as occurring in Samos, and in Asia Minor, between 

 Brusa and Smyrna. 



Sibthorp regards it as the e'Aa/a aWiOTTLKr] of 

 Dioscorides, but Fraas questions this identification. 



The e'Aaiay^oy of Theophrastus was a marsh 

 plant, and either the Myrica gale, or the Salix 

 babylonica. 



AHISTOLOCHIA. 



Two shrubby species are noticed by Sibthorp in 

 Greece, viz. A. sempervirens and boetica, one also, 

 A. sipho, by Manetti, in Italy. A. boetica is identified 

 by Sibthorp with the 'ApicrroAox/a /cA^/mrm? of 

 Dioscorides, a term which the older botanists had 

 transferred to the herbaceous species met with in 

 Great Britain. 



Pliny g mentions several kinds of Aristolochia 

 which had the same virtues attributed to them 

 as the vulgar at present assign to the various 

 kinds of Birthwort, included under the same de- 

 nomination. 



It does not seem possible, however, to identify 

 the kinds mentioned by Pliny with those known 

 in modern times ; and the notices contained in 

 Theophrastns and in Dioscorides of ' ApLcrroXo^La 

 are still less precise. 



EUPHORBIA. 



Six shrubby species are mentioned by Sibthorp, 

 and one by Manetti in Italy. 



Pliny h gives a description of a plant he calls 

 Euphorbia, which corresponds very well with the 



Lib. xxv. c. 54. h Lib. xxv. c. 38. 



