Silphium

Silphium

Silphium: this plant occurs but in one coat of arms, and that a singular one. The flower is similar to that of the chrysanthemum.

Vert, a chevron gules between two couplecloses erminois[sic] and three Turk's heads couped proper turbaned or; on a chief argent a silphium plant proper issuant from a mount vert inscribed with the letters KYPA gold--Admiral SMYTH.