216 THE CLASSICAL PLANTS OF SICILY. 
Sprengel considers it the #^sós, Theoph. lib. iv. cap. 11, which 
is described as, ghomor «góc v& exa. And to this I would 
refer the “ Arundo Italia” of Pliny, of which he adds, 
« usus ad vineas maxime." Confer Hist. Nat. lib. xvi. cap. 36. 
152. Triticum hybernum.— Winter Wheat, Majorca, or 
Roccella, 
Il). Diosc. lib. ii. cap. 107%. One of the eight varieties 
of Wheat mentioned by Theophrastus, is zvec Zixe^óc, which 
was heavier than those kinds which were imported into 
Greece, Bagbrsgog 0b và» 2g el» "EX, Tagaywomevõy 6 sinerés, lib. 
viii. cap. 4. It is not improbable that the variety called 
Tumminia, (var. spicis angustis et longis, aristis albis aut 
nigris) by the Sicilians, may be identified with that, as its 
bearded long ears produce not only a greater number, but 
also larger and heavier, though coarser, grains, than the 
other kinds. The following are the Romaic names of Wheat, 
according to Dr. Sibthorp, orég, Athens and Constantinople; 
acmpoorran, and morris, Zante; dyunwd, xoxzivíorri, Pranoordgly (40V0~ 
Aóyt, Lebadea. 
Wheat is said to have grown naturally wild in many 
places in Sicily; and Diodorus (Sic. Bib. Hist. lib. v. cap. 2.) 
states in particular the Leontine plain, now Lentini, as being 
its original habitat, & vs y&e rw Asong «eig, zal zare coXMU6 
GAdous rious ris XrxsMas meyor rou viv QUsobou rode dypiode bvopuccZouevous 
xvgous. Cicero likewise observes, **caput est rei frumenta- 
rie, campus Leontinus" On most of the ancient Sicilian 
coins appear some ears of bearded wheat; and on two of 
the Leontine brass coins, are figures of Ceres in addition to 
the usual ears of corn. Homer says that wheat, barley, and 
the vine grew spontaneously in the island, Odyss. ix. v. 109. 
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AXXa tay aorugra xal úvýgora mayra porai, 
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Ilugot xci xoa, 70° urho ceive pépovom 
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Ono) igordiguXo), xai opi Ads òmpBpos késs 
Cicero in another passage (im Verrem lib. v. cap. 38), calls 
Sicily *Insula Cereris ubi primum fruges invents esse 
dicuntur." 
