124 THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 
a garland or chaplet. Confer also /dy/. xx. v. 23, therefore, 
in Idyl. vii. v. 68, this parsley is called flexible, rorvyvdurry 
re ocAlmp, In another passage, Idyl. xiii, v. 42, Theocritus 
gives it the epithet (orc; and Moschus, dyl. iii. v. 107, 
has rd Awd oana: so Horace, “neu vivax apium." 
A crown of Selinum was the reward of victory at the 
Isthmian and Nemean games. It was also particulary used 
in bedecking tombs amongst the Greeks, and hence the old 
proverb, —At™a 3<Aivov,—to be at the point of death. Plu- 
tarch mentions an interesting tale concerning this plant, in 
his life of Timoleon, 
The ancient river and city of Selinus received their names 
from it, the leaves being introduced on the Selinuntine 
coins. This species is reported still to grow near the grand 
and colossal ruins of Selinunte. 
63. Heracleum Panaces.—Fig-leaved Cow-parsnep. 
Tlevenes ‘Hecixrcov.—Diose. lib, iii. cap. 55; also Theoph. lib. 
ix. cap. 12, according to Stackhouse. 
64. Ferula Ferulago.—Fennel-leaved Giant-Fennel. 
Supposed to be the Ndezz. Diosc, lib. iii. cap. 91, and 
"Theoph. lib. vi. cap. 2.—See also Pliny, Hist. Nat. lib, xiii. 
cap. 22. 
65. Thapsia Garganica.— Garganian Deadly-Carrot.— Fl. 
Grac. vol. iii. t. 287. 
G«xpía, Diosc. lib. iv. cap. 157. and Theoph. lib. ix. cap. 10+ 
Observed on the south coast near Sciacca, et alibi. 
COMPOSIT.E. 
66. Scolymus Hispanicus.—Spanish Golden-Thistle. 
3x6).uuos. — Diosc. lib. iii. cap. 16.?— and of Theoph. lib. vi. 
cap. 4, according to Stackhouse. Hesiod, elegantly describing 
the time of year, says,—' Huc ò Xxó^upóg v' de When the 
Scolymus flowers, 7. e., in hot weather, or summer.—( Op. € 
Dies, v. 582.) 
This plant covered with its golden flowers is abundant 
throughout Sicily. 
