Crossword-Solution: COLLINA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Livy expressly says, "Ita abundavit Tiberis, ut Ludi Apollinares, circo inundato, extra portam Collinam ad aedem Erycinae Veneris parati sint," "There was such an inundation of the Tiber that, the Circus being overflowed, the Ludi Appollinares were exhibited without the gate Collina, hard by the temple of Venus Erycina." To this custom of transferring the Ludi Appollinares to another place where the Tyber had overflowed the Circus Maximus, Ovid alludes in his Fasti.

Here the sanctuary of Crea can be seen crowning a neighbouring _collina_ with a chapel that has an arcaded gallery running round it, like some of those at Varese.

Anagallis collina: Red variety crossed by a distinct plant of the red variety, and red variety self-fertilised.

The _Persian rose_, apparently R collina, _Gul eeran_ bears a very full-petaled blossom, assuming a darker shade as these approach nearer to the centre, but, it is difficult to obtain a perfect flower, the calyx being so apt to burst with excess of fulness, that if perfect flowers are required a thread should be tied gently round the bud, it has no fragrance.

The vegetation of the grassy hills was precisely the same, Aroidea, Erianthus, Tofieldioidea, Parnassia nana _potius_ _collina_, Sphacelioidea, Osbeckia, Arbutoideae, etc.