THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. BIS 
Millet, and says it came into ear, when the sour grapes 
changed colour.—Scut. Her. v. 398. 
"Hag ù Kéiyyeoor Tegi yaaines TEAÉÉOUOI, 
Tods re béges orészovew, ÖT OUPEXEG csoArovreut, 
Little Millet, lu migliu, is grown in the Island. 
150. Arundo Donax.—Cultivated, or Pipe Reed. 
Káħauoçs 0óvaz. Diosc. lib. i. cap. 115. Adak, Theoph. lib. 
iv. cap. 12, where it is described as being the most shrubby, 
and the most common of the x&cuo, and chiefly growing by 
rivers and marshes. Now called zá2aj», according to Sibthorp. 
It is the Donaz of Pliny, Hist. Nat. lib. xvi. cap. 36. 
The stems of this Reed are useful for many domestic 
purposes in Italy, and Sicily; for fences in gardens and 
vineyards, for props to bind vines to, for making pipes, 
distaffs, fishing-rods, walking-sticks, &c. Hence Horace, 
* equitare in Arundine longa.” Homer describes Mercury 
as using the Donax in forming the Testudo, or Lyre. 
IIZZs Ò dà èv uérgonmi ramon Advanag Karduoo 
Tlesejvacs Oa vara Arbogeivero yveravng (Hymn in Mere. v. 46.) 
Theocritus calls the shepherd’s pipe, Aó«£. Vide Idyl. 
XX. v, 29. 
Ky &vAq Aurion, xiv Awvans, ANY STMOCy IU) 
Again in Epigram ii. v. 3, rag renras Advanas. 
And Moschus has the following line, Zdyl. iii. v. 55. 
":9 , , 
Axe 0 fv Aovdxsaor reg emiBioxer’ coiddis. 
In Theocritus Idyl of the Fisherman, xéAauo signify 
fishing-rods, see x. v. 43,47. But Oppian, Halieut. iii. v. 15, 
names them Advaxes. 
151. A. festucoides, Pers. Fescue-like Reed. (A. Ampe- 
lodesmos, Cyr. ; 
Cyrillo has given the specific name Ampelodesmos to this 
plant on account of its being used for supporting vines, &c. 
