单词 | phlomis |
释义 | Phlomisn. A genus of shrubby and herbaceous plants (family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae)) native to Mediterranean Europe and Asia, and typically having grey-green, woolly leaves and verticillasters of yellow, purple, or white flowers; (also phlomis) a plant of this genus, esp. Jerusalem sage, P. fruticosa.The identity of the plant in quot. 1706 is unclear. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > phlomis sage mullein1562 mullein1578 sage of Jerusalem1578 French sage1597 Jupiter's distaff1597 phlome1715 Jerusalem sage1736 sage tree1736 Phlomis1754 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Phlomis, a kind of Flower, which some take for a Primrose. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Verbascum foliis Salviæ tenuifoliæ Syriacum, small sage-leafed Mullen of Syria. Although I never saw this plant, yet because Lobel, who first set it forth, entitles it Phlomos, and places it among the Verbasca, Mullens, I therefore mention it with them.] 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2421/1 Phlomis, sage-mullein, in botany, a genus of the didynamia-gymnosperma class of plants. 1765 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar (ed. 14) 173 Plants in Flower in the Green-House and Stove...Bauhinias, Acacias, Apocynums, Phlomises. 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis II. 307 Broad-leav'd shrubby Phlomis, or Jerusalem Sage. 1855 T. G. Bradford Murray's Encycl. Geogr. (rev. ed.) II. 461 Two new kinds of Eremostachys (a genus that ranks between Phlomis and Molucella). 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 877/1 Phlomis, a genus of the labiate order, having the border of the calyx entire or three-toothed, and the tube of the corolla short, [etc.]. 1904 F. W. Oliver tr. A. Kerner Nat. Hist. Plants (ed. 4) I. 317 Then [sc. in order of hairiness among Mediterranean plants] come the Labiates of the genera Phlomis,..Stachys, Sideritis, and Lavandula. 1908 G. Jekyll Colour in Flower Garden ix. 80 Further back among the flowers are..some grey bushes of Phlomis and a silvery leaved Willow. 1961 Times 25 Nov. 11/4 Phlomis, verbascums, and many more, can be brought into service for such [dry, sunny] positions. 1976 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 6/2 Here..I would grow the pink-flowered Italian phlomis, which has come into garden centres in recent seasons, as well as the old Jerusalem one,..which..has yellow flowers, in addition to the silvery, woolly leaves characteristic of the group. 2002 Horticulture Nov. 44 Grasses and the dry seed heads of perovskia and phlomis integrate into a hazy, golden picture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1754 |
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