108 THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 
Sprengel considers this species the Awris 7d dédgov. Diosc, 
lib. i. cap. 172, which is described as éuuéyedes, very large, and 
therefore, cannot, I think, agree with this Buck-Thorn, which 
is only a moderate-sized shrub. Park and Desfontaines also 
suppose it to be the true Lotus of the Lotophagi.—See Flora 
Atlantica, and Acad. Paris. Act. 1788. Consult Celtis 
Australis, infra. No. 126. 
Near Palermo, on Monte Pellegrino; but scarcely indi- 
genous. ( Bivona.) 
22. Rhamnus Zizyphus, Pers. (Zizyphus vulgaris, Lam.) 
Common Jujube.— fl. Grec. vol. iii. t. 241. 
According to the Flora Graeca this is the «aoc. — Diosc. 
lib. i. cap. 122, and Theoph. lib. i. cap. 16.—1t is now called 
vLctigo, Ñ Zídigi.— Sibth. Ray observed this species growing 
wild in great abundance in Calabria. The cultivated kind 
bears an oval, sweet fruit, about the size of a plum. The 
juice is taken medicinally. 
23. R. Paliurus, Pers. (Paliurus aculeatus, Lam.) Prickly 
Paliurus, or Christ's Thorn.— Fl. Grec. vol. iii. tab. 240. 
'Pápsos voíez.—- Diosc. lib. i. cap. 120. Secundüm Floram 
Grecam. But I would consider this plant the «aire; of 
Dioscorides and Theophrastus; since, in Modern Greece, it 
retains its ancient name slightly altered dérardg,—Sibth. 
Stackhouse has referred R. Spina Christi, and R. Paliurus to 
wadiovgos of Theophrastus. In the 24th Idyl of the Theocritus, 
Tiresias commands Alcmena to prepare a fire of dry wood, 
cut from different wild shrubs, one of which is the raAsougos, 
and to burn in it the two snakes which the infant Hercules 
had strangled.— See v. 86—90. Dioscorides also says the 
seeds, leaves, and root of the Paliurus were good against the 
poison and bite of serpents. 
This very thorny plant, with its singular membranaceous 
winged seed-vessels, is common iu hedges. 
TEREBINTHACE.E, 
24. Pistacia vera.— True Pistachio. Sa 
In Sicilian, IX Pistacchiu. The nuts msáåxa.— Diosc. lib. 1. 
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