φυλία

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English (LSJ)

poet. φυλίη, ἡ, a tree mentioned with the olive in Od.5.477 (δοιοὺς . . θάμνους, ἐξ ὁμόθεν πεφυῶτας—ὁ μὲν φυλίης, ὁ δ' ἐλαίης), apptly. (cf. Sch.ad loc., Hsch.) a kind of

   A wild olive, but distd. fr. κότινος and said to be Troezenian by Paus.2.32.10 (written φυλλία), cf. Philostr.Gym.43, Nonn.D.5.474; wrongly identified by Ammon. Diff. p.135V. with σχῖνος.