It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant for its white, felt-like tomentose leaves; in horticultural use, it is also sometimes called "'dusty miller "', a name shared with several other plants that also have silvery tomentose leaves; the two most often to share the name are " Centaurea cineraria " and " Lychnis coronaria ".
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This symbolism was not pagan, i . e . the lamps were not placed in the graves as part of the furniture of the dead; in the Catacombs they are found only in the niches of the galleries and the arcosolia, nor can they have been votive in the sense popularized later . " Clara coronantur densis altaria lychnis " . " Continuum scyphus est argenteus aptus ad usum.
