98 THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 
OBSERVATIONS ox some or Tug CLASSICAL PLANTS 
or SICILY.* 
Bx JOHN HOGG, Esa., M.A., F.L.S., M.R.G.S., F.C.P.S., &e. 
Durine a tour I made in Sicily, in the spring of 1826, I 
noted down most of the plants which I collected, not only of 
those which are indigenous, but also of those which, by long 
cultivation, are now perfectly naturalized. Since the recent 
appearance of two Sicilian Floras, one by Dr. Presi, and 
the other by Dr. Gussone,{ it would be superfluous to add 
in this paper more observations from my catalogue, than 
what refer to the Classical Plants, which do not grow 
naturally in Great Britain. 
These rough notes, therefore, I beg to lay before my 
readers, with the hope that they may call the attention of 
some more able scholar and botanist to the same very enter- 
taining and useful subject, and that a complete Classical 
Flora$ may ultimately be given to Literature and to Science. 
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* This paper was read before the Linnean Society of London, November 
2d, November 16th, and December 21st, 1830:—the Cambridge Philoso- 
phical Society, May, 1832:—and the Natural History Society of Nor- 
thumberland, Durham, and Neweastle-on-Tyne, October 15th, and No- 
vember 19th, 1832. 
+ Presl, Carol. B.—Flora Sicula, exhibens Plantas Vasculosas in 
Sicilia aut sponté crescentes aut frequentissimé cultas, secundùm Systema 
Naturale digestas—Prage. 1826.—The first volume only has been pub- 
lished. 
1 Gussone, Joanne. Flore Sicule Prodromus, Sive Plantarum in 
Sicilia, Ulterori nascentium Enumeratio, secundùm Systema Linneanum. 
Naples. 1 vol. 1827.— This work cannot yet be obtained in England; 
and of it the Ist Vol. alone has appeared.—(J. H. 1832.) 
§ Some time after this paper was written, I met with a foreign book, 
entitled, * Flora Classica.— Herausgegeben von Dr. Julius Billerbeck in 
Hildesheim."— Leipzig, 1824.— The work is published in one vol. 8v0- 
and composed partly in German, and partly in Latin; it is carefully 
done, and contains much valuable information. 
