Dumjuga month aper t fluvios dumpifcis atnabif, 
J^umque^fhymo pafcentur apes, dum rore cicada^ 
Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudefquemanebunt. 
Thefe beautiful lines, you remember, are 
at the conclufion of the very fublime apo- 
theofis of Daphnis, fuppofed to be Julius 
Csefar, fung by Menalcas in the fifth Eclogue : 
and, in the fourth Georgia, 
Tpfe 'fhymum pinofque ferens de montibus altis 
TeSfaferat late rircutp, cut tali a cur a. 
This cfbymum of Virgil is fuppofed to be, 
not our common Thyme, cultivated in our 
, gardens as a pot-herb, but that fpecies which 
Ray calls tfhymum kgitimum\ that fpecies to 
the abundance of which Sicily owed its cele- 
brity for its honey, and which is found by 
travellers in every part of Greece Bothnia 
puftorcy fays Ray, ita frequent in tota Grecia 
reperitur y ut nulla herba in montibus facilius 
prevent at, 
That diffufe plant with fmall whitifh 
Jtum. fl owers on loofe leafy panicles, is the 
^be/ium Unophyllum, of which, as a rare 
plant, Relhan has given a plate. Its 
Englifh name is baftard Toadflax. YOU 
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