[trans. L. Barba Jovis.] A name for various plants.
† a. Chrysocoma Linosyris (L. vulgaris), a South European plant with yellow composite flowers. Obs. b. Anthyllis Barba-Jovis, the Silverbush, a South European evergreen leguminous shrub, having leaves covered with silvery down; also applied to A. vulneraria, and the allied American genus Amorpha. c. The common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum = JUBARB. d. Hydnum Barba-Jovis, a hymenomycetous fungus with a white fibrous margin.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 47. Ivpiters Beard, called of the Greekes Chrysokome, as you would say Goldilocks. It is hairie like Isope. Ibid., 56. Penroyall, of some Chrusitis, of others Iupiters beard.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., App. 306. Jupiter’s Beard, Anthyllis. Ibid. Jupiter’s Beard, American, Amorpha.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxv. 353–4. That which is generally called Jupiter’s Beard or Silver Bush, from the splendid whiteness of the leaves, which is owing to a fine nap or down that covers them.
1861. Mrs. Lankester, Wild Fl., 57. House-leek … is frequently called Jupiter’s Eye, Bullock’s Eye, or Jupiter’s Beard.
1879. Prior, Plant-n., 127. Jupiter’s beard,… the house-leek, so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jupiter.
