THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 107 
nea, Etna, Augusta, Syracuse, Girgenti, Marsala, Castel- 
vetrano, Castel 4 mare, and Melazzo—Mount Etna also 
produces a vast quantity of wine; the last vineyards I ob- 
served in ascending the mountain, were near San Niccolo 
dell’ arena, a convent distant about thirteen miles from Cata- 
nia, and at an elevation of 2449 feet above the sea, according 
to Captain Smyth’s survey. The wines of Etna, Catania, 
Augusta, and Syracuse are the strongest, and most esteemed ; 
of these Albarello, Calabrese, Capriata, Guarnaccia, Malva- 
sia, Moscadello, and Terriforti, are in all probability supe- 
rior in flavour to any of the ancient Sicilian wines, which 
have been extolled by the classical writers. 
I did not learn that the Corinthian Vine (Currant), V. 
corianthiaca, was cultivated in Sicily; although it is grown 
abundantly on the adjacent island of Lipari, where it is called 
Passolina. ? 
18. Vitis— Far. sylvestris. —Wild Vine. 
"Aumeros dygia. Diosc. lib. v. cap. 2.—also Theophrastus, 
KAZua 7 Ayeíuums^os. hodiè (Sibthorp). 
Common in uncultivated and wild places, climbing grace- 
fully about trees and bushes.— The wild grapes are some- 
times named by the Sicilian peasantry, Labrusce. 
ZYGOPHYLLE.E. 
19. Tribulus terrestris.—Ground Caltrops.—Fl. Gree. 
vol. iv. tab. 312. 
"TeíSoX.og 6 xg% Diosc. lib. iv. cap. 15.—TeiBoros. T heoph. 
- lib. vi. cap. 1.— Te82., hodiè secundùm Sibthorpium. 
In sandy fields near the sea-coast.— Presl. 
RHAMNE.E. 
20. Rhamnus Alaternus— Common Alaternus. 
Agázn, "Theoph. lib. i. cap. 15, is supposed by Stackhouse 
to be this plant.— Others refer it to the giióxz. Theoph. lib. 
1. cap. 15, which is now named in Greece »rgné£iXov. —Sibt. 
21. R. Lotus, Pers. (Zizyphus Lotus) Barbary Buck- 
Thorn. 
