208 THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 
CLASS II. MONOCOTYLEDONES. 
IRIDEZ. 
132. Crocus odorus. Bivona.—Sweet-scented Crocus. 
C. foliis rigidis subcowtaneis, spatha 1-phylla, corolle 
tubo longissimo, staminibus stigmata incisa superantibus cor- 
ollà brevioribus, bulbo reticulato-fibroso. 
Hab. in pascuis apricis Sicilie. (Spreng. Syst. Veget. vol. 
i. p. 146.) Surely this species is the xeéxeg uosuoc, of Theo- 
phrastus, Jib. ix. cap. 7. 
133. Ixia Bulbocodium. Pers. (I. purpurascens, Ten.?) 
Fil. Grec. vol. i. t. 86. Bot. Mag. vol. viii. t. 265. 
Uncertain if this be the Box8evzdómy, Theoph. lib. vi. cap. T. 
It is now called zarZa, according to Dr. Sibthorp. 
Frequent in the Sicilian pastures. 
134. Iris Sisyrinchium, Pers. (Mora Sisyrinchium, Curt) 
European Spanish-Nut.—#l. Grec. vol. i, t. 42. Bot. Mag. 
vol. xxiv. t. 1407. 
Xwweyysw. Theoph. lib. vii. cap. 13. Aygwxgiveg hodiè Sibth. 
^ Common near Catania, Palermo, &c. Bivona. 
135. I. tuberosa.—Snake's head Iris.—77, Gree. vol. i. t 
4l. Bot. Mag. vol. xv. t. 531. 
Aoyyrris. Diosc. lib. iii. 161. Its singular flowers are de- 
scribed by Dioscorides as resembling gaping comic masks 
with the tongues projecting. 
In fields about Mount Etna. Bivona. 
AMARYLLIDEÆ. 
136. Narcissus Tazzetta.—Polyanthus.— 77. Grec. vol. iv. 
t. 308. Bot. Mag. vol. xxiv. t. 925. 
Nápussos 5o xgoxdides. Diosc. lib. iv. cap. 161. apud Fl. 
Grec. Hab. in pratis et pascuis Siciliæ. 
137. Pancratium  maritimum.—Sea  Pancratium.—Z7. 
Gree. vol. iv, t. 309. 
