Thus it is, that we find employed for chaplets, the leaves of the melothron,[1] spiræa,[2] origanum,[3] cneorum,[4] by Hyginus called "cassia," conyza or cunilago,[5] melissophyllon or apiastrum,[6] and melilote, known to us by the name of "Campanian[7] garland," the best kind of melilote[8] 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.