TAA i.3.2.7

                                                                                 5.

               Centaureadepressa M.B. <[>Compositae<]>.

A kind of Cornflower, with blue flower-heads, rather similar to 

the common Blue Cornflower (Centaurea Cyanus L.). The specimens 

examined we/<a>re flower-heads from wreaths composed of these and of 

Olive-leaves.

          The plant occurs in Egypt, etc. (Herb. Kew). It is stated 

to occur sporadically in Upper Egypt, but not elsewhere in Egypt 

(Woenig/<.>), but may probably have been cultivated in gardens of 

ancient Egypt as an ornamental plant, and the supposition is not 

excluded that this species may have been dispersed in ancient 

times as a weed in the Corn-fields of Upper Egypt (Schweinfurth/<.1>).

                                   no 253; 254A