Note 753 — BOOK XXV. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WILD PLANTS.
John Bostock translation
Desfontaines identifies it with the Saponaria ocimoïdes. Fée thinks it may have possibly been some kind of sage, or else a variety of the Lavendula stœchas of Linnæus, French lavender. Littré gives the Silene Gallica of Linnæus, the Gallic catchfly.