Salicaire, Lythrumsalicariaor '4oo8etrife,"awild

flower with showy yellow or purple flowers. It flourishee in the moisture of lowlands.

4. Centaurée, Centaurea, an eztensive genus of plants allied to the thistle. A scented variety, called the sweet sultan, with purple, white, or yellow flowers, is cultivated as a garden ornament.

Other varieties are known under the popular names of bachelors' button, comflower, .bluebottle.

12. DaphniSf in Greek mythology, a Sicilan shepherd, said to hâve been the inventor of bucolic poetry. The name is common with the pastoral poets (Theocritus, Virgil) for designating a love-lom shepherd. The name is associated also with Chloe in a Greek pastoral romance, called Daphnis and Chloe, attributed to Longus (4th or 5th century), a Greek sophist, which recounts the sentimental pastoral life of two lovera in a manner that has been much imitated in modem times.

18. Cydope. One of a race of pastoral giants described in the Odyssey, Bk. IX. Later poets locate them in Sicily and describe them as one-eyed. The only one celebrated by name was Polyphemus, who, according to the legend, became jealous of Acis, a beautiful Sicilian youth beloved by Galatea, and slew him together with his sweetheart by crushing both mider a rock (cf. the Fontaine Médicis in the Luxembourg Garden at Paris with a group commemorating this thème). The allusion in the text is probably to this tragedy.