Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . oscorides and Pliny both tell us, that amara-cus was the same plant as lampsana, and thelatter is considered by Sibthorp to be our mar-joram, (Origanum marjorana,) a native of Egyptand Crete. A figure of o-dix^
Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . oscorides and Pliny both tell us, that amara-cus was the same plant as lampsana, and thelatter is considered by Sibthorp to be our mar-joram, (Origanum marjorana,) a native of Egyptand Crete. A figure of o-dix^rvyov, without fruit or flower,representing only the radical leaves, is given inV. MS. pi. 298. That marked d/udpaKov, pi. 29, inthe same work, does not at all correspond withit, being very probably intended for matricariaparthenium, which Dioscorides indeed says (lib. 155) was also called d/udpaKov. 2. Anethum, Bene odoratum Is anethum graveolens L. (or Dill.), common inthe South of Europe, and used in Italy as a sauce,its seeds being aromatic and stimulant. Avva-ov of Dioscorides, Sibthorp says, is clearlypimpinella anisum, and the drawing in the V. no doubt intended for this plant. 3. Balsama, Cum casia nectens. (3°2-) The passage does not imply that this plant wascultivated in the garden, for it was probablybrought from the east, along with casia with Plate, ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 273 which it is here associated. It is supposed to beamyris opobalsamum, or balm of Gilead. (Pliny,lib. xii. c. 54.) 4. Bryonias, described as follows : Quseque tuas audax imitatur Nysie viteis,Nee metuit senteis ; nam vepribus iraproba surgensAchradas, indomitasque bryonias alligat alnos ; (C. 248.) is the white bryony, bryonia alba, to which Pliny ascribes sundry medicinal qualities, but which at the present day is regarded as acrid and poisonous. Whereas afx-rreXog Xemr], of Diosco- rides, is the bryonia dioica, or perhaps bryonia cretica. Fl. Grsec. t. 940. The tender s
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