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Stocks (Matthioli incana, M. triste, etc.).—Several kinds, 
both diurnal and nocturnal bloomers and highly 
perfumed. 
Storax (Styrax officinalis).—This shrub is found in the 
Levant, but its balsamic resin is not now easily ob- 
tained. The storax now used is from Liguidambar 
orientale, found in Asia Minor. Used in perfumery 
and as an expectorant. 
sweet Bay (Laurus nobilis)—A well-known aromatic 
evergreen, bark, leaves, and fruits being very fragrant. 
Long grown in European gardens and often used for 
funeral wreaths. 
Sweet flag (Acorus calamus).—Long used as a perfume 
plant. It was the common perfume of the Romans, 
but they prized more highly the Roses of Pzestum, 
Opikenard, Telinium, Medebathrum, Onegalum, Balm 
of Gilead, and Cinnamon. 
Sweet-scented Golden Rod (Solidago odora). 
Syringa persica, etc. (Lilac)—One of the sweetest of 
hardy garden shrubs. Forced Lilac is deliciously 
sweet. 
Tansy (Lanecetum vulgare).—Fern-like foliage aromati- 
cally scented, and it is now and then used in order 
to try and keep flies out of rooms. Used also in 
cookery, Tansy puddings, etc. 
Thyme (Thymus vulgaris).—A well-known garden herb 
and the source of ‘‘ Thymol,” etc. TZ. citriodorus is 
‘¢Lemon Thyme.” ‘There are many species grown 
as rock plants, all more or less scented. 
Toddalia (Zoddalia aculeata). 
Tonquin Beans=seeds of Dipteryx odorata, Willd., from 
Guiana. 
Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa). 
Tussilago fragrans (Sweet Tussilage ; Winter Heliotrope). 
—An Italian plant naturalised abundantly near Dublin 
and elsewhere, and flowering freely in January and 
