Thus it is, that we find employed for chaplets, the leaves of the melothron,2028 spiræa,2029 origanum,2030 cneorum,2031 by Hyginus called “cassia,” conyza or cunilago,2032 melissophyllon or apiastrum,2033 and melilote, known to us by the name of “Campanian2034 garland,” the best kind of melilote2035 in Italy being that of Campania, in Greece that of Cape Sunium, and next to that the produce of Chalcidice and Crete: but wherever this plant grows it is only to be found in rugged and wild localities. The name “sertula” or “garland,” which it bears, sufficiently proves that this plant was formerly much used in the composition of chaplets. The smell, as well as the flower, closely resembles that of saffron, though the stem itself is white; the shorter and more fleshy the leaves, the more highly it is esteemed.