114 THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 
i. p. 306. 8vo. Edit. 1822.) We also learn from Leviticus, 
chap. xi. v. 22, that “the locust after his kind, and the 
bald locust after his kind," were allowed to be eaten. A 
people of Ethiopia, called za9eg&ye, Locust-eaters, are 
mentioned by Diodorus Siculus, Bib. Hist. lib. iii. cap. 28, 
by Pliny Hist. Nat. lib. vi. cap. 30, and lib. xi. cap. 29, and 
by Strabo lib. xvi. And for further authorities of Locusts 
being still eaten and considered a delicacy, see, — Beechey's 
Exped. tó N. coast of Africa, p. 109.— Forbes's Orient. Mem. 
vol. i. p. 46.— Hasselquist, p. 231. 419.—Horneman’s Africa: 
p. 59.—Jachsow's Morocco, p. 52.— Ludolphi Hist. ZEthiop. 
p. 61.— Russell's Aleppo, p. 62.— Sal's Abyssinia, p. 112.— 
Shaw's Travels, p. 188. 
The Caroub-tree hasa considerable range; it is met 
with in Malta, (Forsk.( the Balearic isles, chiefly in Majorca; 
in the south of Spain (Cambessédes.) In southern Italy 
(Ten.) In Turkey, Greece, and the Grecian Islands 
(Smith.) In Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine (Hasselquist.) 
In the North of Africa; and even in the kingdom of Bornou, 
in the centre of Africa, according to Denham and Clapperton- 
41. Cercis Siliquastrum.— European Judas-Tree.— Fl. 
Grec. vol. iv. t. 361. Bot. Mag. vol. xxviii. tab. 1138. 
Kegxig.— Theoph. lib. ii. cap. 14. Now named xovnougo ibid, 
and xorZovxowdge in Greece.—Sibth, 
This very elegant plant seldom rises above a low stunted 
shrub in its wild state, and is indigenous in all the Southern 
countries of Europe. 
ROSACES. 
42. Amygdalus Persica.— Peach. 
Stackhouse conjectures that the tree, which Theophrastus 
describes, lib. iv. cap. 2. and calls segs, signifies this species: 
and I would also refer to it the regota, Diosc. lib, i. cap. 188 — 
which is a tree bearing a good wholesome fruit,— 64820 é¢, zug» : 
gécov idu, tugéuax%ov.— Theophrastus indeed states, that it 
was the size of a Pear-tree, dzwc, resembling the almond-tree, 
duuytaddénc, and having a fruit of a very sweet and pleasant 
