THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. ' Ug 
Tayngariv 7, Szara. Diosc. lib. ii. cap. 903.—' Aypa exin, 
hodiè Sibth. I am inclined to refer the xz», Theoph. lib. vi. 
cap. 6, to this species, as also Asvxiv rò xev», "Theocritus, Jdyl. 
xxiii. v. 30, and the xgiva Acuxd, Idyl. xi. v. 56, rather than to 
Lilium candidum, as Stackhouse has done. The latter plant, 
I believe, is not a native of Sicily, or Greece, but of Palestine 
and Syria, on the authority of Linné, Miller, and Persoon. 
Forskal considers the elegant flowers of P. maritimum to be 
* the lilies of the field," spoken of by Christ. (Matth. chap. 
vi. v. 28.) 
Observed in sandy places along the coast. ; 
138. Amaryllis lutea.—Yellow Amaryllis.—77. Grec. vol, 
iv. 4 310. Bot. Mag. vol. ix. t. 290. 
' Now called in Greece the Wild Lily, ' Aygorgiva 7 àygórahssy 
potius ^22); hodiè (Fl. Grec. p. 10), where Sir J. E. Smith 
remarks,—* hinc Lilis agrestibus Evangelii, longè melius 
quam Lilia candida Hortorum, nunquam in Syria sponté 
crescentia, proculdubio respondent, quod nomine Greco 
hodierno confirmatur." 
The Turks plant this flower on the graves of their friends. 
Sibth. 
In woods, near Catania, and Nicolosi, and elsewhere upon 
the base of Mount Etna. 
ASPHODELEÆ. 
139. Asphodelus luteus.—Yellow Asphodel.— Bot. Mag. 
vol. xx. tab. '13.—Stackhouse supposes this to be the ddégnos, 
Theoph. lib. i. cap. 7. The Scholiast, on v. 52. Idyl. i. of 
Theocritus, interprets éxég£, to signify the stem of the As- 
phodel, awégmo¢, with which a boy is making a trap to catch 
grasshoppers; the verse is,— 
i Ajráo by’ ' Avdeginecos zardy axes angidodngay. 
The plant is common on Mount Etna, in the woody region. 
. M0. A. ramosus.— Branching Asphodel.—Z7. Grec. vol. 
iv. Bot. Mag. vol. xxi. t. 199. 
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