Heliotrope(4 syl.). Apollo loved Clytie, but forsook her for her sister Leucothoe. On discovering this, Clytie pined away; and Apollo changed her at death to a flower, which, always turning towards the sun, is called heliotrope. (Greek, “turn-to-sun.”) According to the poets, heliotrope renders the bearer invisible. Boccaccio calls it a stone, but Solinus says it is the herb. “Ut herba ejusdem nominis mixta et præcantationibus legitimis consccrata, eum, a quocunque gestabitur, subtrahat visibus obviorum.” (Georgic, xi.) No hope had they of crevice where to hide, Or heliotrope to charm them out of view. “The other stone is heliotrope, which renders those who have it
invisible.” — Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Heliotrope from Infoplease:
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