128 THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 
which is described as a shrubby tree resembling the Tamarisk, 
but much less,—dévdzov sors daurdides moov Muginn, usngoregor OE TOAAD 5 
perhaps the tze/xn, Theoph. lib. i. cap. 23. Pius Argol. hodié 
Sibth. 
In woods near Messina. 
OLEINÆ. 
77. Olea Europæa.—European Olive.—77. Grec. vol. i. 
tab. 3. 
Eaíc, iy 712265 «uiu, — Diosc. lib. i, cap. 139.—EAcío, Theoph. 
lib. i. cap. 13. 15. 16. &c.—' The oil was called xo» xom.— 
Diosc. lib. i. cap. 30.  'T'heocritus mentions the Olive in the 
Ath Idyl. v. 44. 
The olive has ever been the principal emblem of peace. 
Genesis, chap. viii. v. 11.— Virgil gives it the epithet Pacifera. 
'The Olive flourishes best in a calcareous soil; it continues 
to bear fruit from one to three centuries, but will in extreme 
age become barren. It affords to the Sicilians a considerable 
article of commerce both in its fruit and oil. Hence many 
varieties are propagated with care; and oil is chiefly exported 
from Palermo, Olivieri, Cefalu, and Melazzo. The tree 
when ungrafted produces a small fruit, which gives but little 
oil. The Sicilians still graft the cultivated olive, Ulivu cul- 
tivatu, on the stock of the wild olive, Ulivu salvaticu, o Ul- 
eastru. See Theoph. lib. ii. cap. 7%, and the beautiful 
passage in Romans, chap. xi. v. 1'1—24. 
78. O. Europea, Var. 8. sylvestris. — Wild Olive. 
Avygla, tralia Ñ rycie ae qv swo Kérwoy xao .— Diosc. lib. i. cap. 
138. The Aygea/z, which some call Kérwez. 
Kóros, Theoph. lib. i, cap. 13. &c. It retains its ancient 
name AygécAasm, and Ayeewà in modern Greece. Sibth. 
Theocritus mentions the tree under both the names xór»» 
and AjygéAcus; the first occurs, Jdyl. v. v. 32. 100; Idyl. 
xxvii. v. 10. Moschus describes the water of the Alpheus 
xorwnpógo, that is to say, the banks of the river were covered 
with the wild Olive, XAagh v àyo£mes Idyl xxv. v. 2l 
The wood of the wild Olive was esteemed by the ancient 
