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; . inscribed upon its petals, have ledsome Botanists to identify the plant with theDelphinium Ajacis, or with the Delphinium pu-bescens, a variety of D. consolida, which also hasthe same markings upon its petals1.
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; . inscribed upon its petals, have ledsome Botanists to identify the plant with theDelphinium Ajacis, or with the Delphinium pu-bescens, a variety of D. consolida, which also hasthe same markings upon its petals1. The former,however, is stated not to be indigenous in Greece;and therefore we are in a manner restricted tothe latter species, which Sibthorp says is commonin those regions. Moreover Dioscorides, lib. hi. c. 85, states, thatthe flower he calls AeXcjyluiov erepov, having alreadyalluded to a flower by that name, is also calledvaKivOog; and that by Delphinium was meant somespecies of larkspur, is confirmed by the drawingin the V. MS., which, rude as it is, bears a fairdegree of resemblance to this genus. On the other hand Ovid says, that the hyacinthlias the form of a lily, and applies to it the epithet ferrugineus, which would seem to be applicableto the Lilium martagon. 1 Sec Ifo^!4, Observations on some of the Classical Plants ofSicily ; 1 lookers Journal of Botany. co . d\ M<nxjAJL< ?Vtc-usVu jur\A\v May AjaAtXOVU Aici<dU Jut n-vcnxxb. $W Ctfuiui., u lect. vil] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 237 Upon the petals of this and some other lilies,markings may be traced, which, although lessdistinct than those on the petals of the lark-spur, might possibly be considered as bearingsome resemblance to the letters A I. Dr. Sibthorp, however, in his MS. notes, pro-nounces the vaKivOoi of Dioscorides to be a squill,probably Scilla amoena; and with this plant thedrawing in the V. MS., of which I have given acopy in the annexed plate, accords better, than itdoes with any speci
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