ABSTRACT
Nicolas Monardes was perhaps the first to use the Latin term Flos passionis (flower of the crucifixion) in 1582. Since that story and the plant were not part of John Frampton’s ([1577] 1925) translation, Englishspeaking people were rarely aware of Monardes’s role. Supposedly, the same species was brought to Europe by Jac Boccio in 1610, and that introduction may have been the source of cultivated plants in England, Holland, and Sweden (Svanidze et al. 1974).
