a. [ad. L. calathiāna, otherwise, perh. correctly, calatina (viola).] In Calathian Violet, a name transferred from Pliny, identified with a gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe).
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. xxi. 173. Autumne Belfloures, Calathian violets…: Cordus calleth them Pneumonanthe: and truly it seemeth to be a certayne kinde of Gentian.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 85. Some smell not at all, to wit, the Calathian Violet with the small leafe.
c. 1806. R. Surtees, Poem, in Taylor, Life (1852), 301. Our autumn fields are with pale gentian set, And the calathian glowing violet.
