PLANTS OF GREECE. 



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(Mr. Hawkins observes, that the hellebore grows only on elevated 

 tracts, for instance on Palseovuno, Mount Helicon. Melius in 

 Helicone. Pliny, lib. xxv. c. 5. — E.) 



106. Chrysanthemum Coronarium, called by the Greeks of Cyprus 

 Aa^apo, because the women ornament their heads with it the Sunday 

 after the day kept to commemorate the resurrection of Lazarus. In 

 Laconia it is called 



107. Lonicera Caprifolium, dyianX'/ipa, used by the girls of Patmos 

 for garlands, and as an ornament for their head-dress. 



108. c £A/^puo-oj/, probably Gnaphallium Stsechas. The images of 

 the Gods, says Dioscorides, were crowned with it. Lib. iv. c. 57. 

 The Greeks still use it as a Planta Coronaria to adorn the Panagia. 



PLANTS COLLECTED IN CYPRUS BY DR. HUME. 



At Limosol in July. 



Gossypium hirsutum 



herbaceum 



Olea Europsea 

 Papaver rhaeas 

 Morus alba 



rubra 



Rhamnus paliurus 

 Robinia spinosa 

 Hypericum repens 



Poterium spinosum 

 Juniperus 



Sempervivum sediforme 

 Punica granatum 

 Ononis 

 Orobanche 

 Nicotiana pusilla 

 Onosma orientalis 

 Jasminum grandiflorum 



Notes by the Editor. 



107. We find the same kind of flowers, which were worn by the ancient Greeks, used 

 now as ornaments or coronary plants, o-re^swojaa-nxa avQrj. They are placed not only round 

 the head and on the breast, but are sometimes pendant by the sides of the temples and 

 ears. " Obtinet," says Coray, " etiamnum apud Grsecos mos flores solutos inter tempora 

 et aures inserendi, ita ut pediculus quidem sub pileo teneatur lateatque, flos vero pendeat 

 saepe aure ima tenus." In Athen. c. 7§< lib. 12. 



