Of the following plants, too, it is only the leaves that are employed for chaplets—the flower of Jove,2055 the amaracus, the hemerocalles,2056 the abrotonum, the helenium,2057 sisymbrium,2058 and wild thyme, all of them ligneous plants, growing in a manner similar to the rose. The flower of Jove is pleasing only for its colours, being quite inodorous; which is the case also with the plant known by the Greek name of “phlox.”2059 All the plants, too, which we have just mentioned are odoriferous, both in the branches and the leaves, with the sole exception of wild thyme.2060 The helenium is said to have had its origin in the tears of Helen, and hence it is that the kind grown in the island of Helena2061 is so highly esteemed. It is a shrub which throws out its tiny branches along the ground, some nine inches in length, with a leaf very similar to that of wild thyme.