THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 143 
Egweod ixs&ron, were used for making chariots, Idyl. xxv. v. 
248. Homer confirms this statement in Zl 9. v. 37. Theo- 
critus gives to the wild fig-tree the epithet ravigroog. See 
Idyl. xxv. v. 250. Homer mentions a large tree which was 
on a rock near Charybdis.— Odys. lib. xii. v. 103.) 
Tg Ò èv Egnéog iori sys QUXXoI0I vin. dic" 
Tg Ò ùro dix Xácu90ig cveezioiBder wiray Vdwe. 
It is the Caprificus of Pliny. The wild fig-tree, ficu 
Salvaticu, or Caprificu, grows on old walls, in the crevices of 
rocks, &c. 
AMENTACEZ. 
120. Platanus orientalis. —Palmated Plane-Tree. 
IIA«rdwc, Diosc. lib. i. cap. 108, also Theoph. lib. i. cap. 
15.—2Aa7ávg and ràaravloros, "Theocritus, Idyl. xxii. v. 41, and 
Idyl. xxv. v. 20. "Theophrastus (lib. iv. cap. 14,) mentions 
two plane-trees which were said to have been planted by 
Agamemnon. This tree was held in great estimation by the 
ancients. Herodotus relates that Xerxes, when marching 
his army in Lydia, observed a Plane-Tree, which he pre- 
sented with a golden ornament on account of its great 
beauty. Vide Polym. cap. 31. The same circumstance is 
narrated by lian, lib. ii. cap. 14. Homer mentions a 
sacrifice made xa iz crAaravisw Iliad, ii. v. 307. The tree 
was named zAaraowe, from aX«rvc, because of its wide-spreading 
branches, which afford an agreeable shade. So Theocritus 
calls it oxiega, confer Idyl. xviii. v. 44. 46, and Idyl. xxii. v. 
76. Moschus says, Zdyl. v. v. 11. 
&urdo iuo) yruxds Uxvog m rrardvw BadupUX Du 
In like manner Horace,— 
Cur non sub alta vel Platano, vel hac 
Ping jacentes. 
And Virgil, — 
Jamque ministrantem Platanum potantibus umbras. 
