Santist, Santost

Same as Sanctus. Santolina (san-to-linä), п. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), said to be named from its repute in medieval medicine and its flax-like leaves; It. santo ), holy, + linum, flax: see saint1 and line1.] A genus of composite plants, of the tribe An them ideæ. It is characterized by a chaffy receptacle, long-stalked roundish heads of flowers without rays, corollas with a hooded appendage at the base, smooth achenes which are three or four-angled, and an involucre of many rows of dry and closely appre ed bracts. The 8 species are all natives of the Mediterranean region. They are shrubby and remarkably odorous plants, very much branched at the base, bearing yellow flowers in small heads, and alternate leaves which are finely di ected. S. Chamæcypari us, the common lavender-cot ton, so called from being used like lavender and from its dense hoary pubescence, is a neat bedding-plant contrasting well with darker foliage. Its name is extended to the other species, some of them also cultivated. F.