288 Mr. J. Hogg's Catalogue of Sicilian Plants. 



lene,Rosa, Rubus, Ranunculus, Orontium, Bar bar ea, Erysimum, 

 Cheiranthus, Ononis, Astragalus, Cariina, Erigeron, Centau- 

 rea ; seven to which Mount Etna has given a name (JEtnensis), 

 Viola, Berberis, Scleranthus, Spartium, Crepis, Seriola, Anthe- 

 mis ; six are called from the Nebrodes, now the Monte di Ma- 

 donia, Viola, Arabis, Alyssum, Sisymbrium, Senecio, Cineraria; 

 two from Messina, Convolvulus and Melilotus; and one from 

 Agrigentum, Ervum. 



Little is yet known of the Sicilian Cryptogamia. The Mosses, 

 Hepaticae, Algae, Lichens, and Fungi have not been much ex- 

 amined. Of the Ferns, I only noticed Adiantum capillus Ve- 

 neris, Aspidium filix mas, Asplenium Adiantum nigrum, Asple- 

 nium Ceterach, Polypodium vulgare, and Pteris aquilina, and 

 these are likewise common to Britain. Those Phanerogamous 

 species which are natives of Britain, I have appended in a 

 separate and alphabetical catalogue. 



I lament that I have not been able to make any observa- 

 tions on the geographical* distribution of the plants in the 

 island, or to trace the several species which vary the most, or 

 which remain nearly fixed in similar situations ; but will only 

 mention, that from the great variety of strata, minerals and 

 soils, as well as from the considerable altitudes to which some 

 of the mountains attain, and particularly from its natural po- 

 sition, Sicily itself may be regarded as a connecting link (at 

 least in a botanical view) between Europe and Africa ; that 

 the subject is of all others the most inviting, and the most 

 certain to grant a rich harvest to any botanist who may make 

 the tour of Sicily, and may have time to prosecute such re- 

 searches. I have given a short introductory account of the 

 island, with respect to its geography, geology, mineralogy and 

 vegetation, in the third volume of Loudon's Magazine of Nat. 

 Hist. pp. 105 — 116 ; and likewise, some "Observations on the 

 Classical Plants of Sicily/' in Dr. Hooker's Journal of Botany, 

 pp. 98 — 203. My object, therefore, in the following Catalogue, 

 is to endeavour to afford to those travellers who are admirers of 

 the elegant science of botany, some tolerably accurate idea of 



* I must refer those who are desirous of ascertaining the localities of many 

 of the Sicilian plants in other districts of the Mediterranean to the follow- 

 ing useful papers : " Enumeratio Plantarum quas in Insulis Balearibus col- 

 legit J. Cambessedes, earumque circa Mare Mediterraneum distributio Geo- 

 graphica," given in the Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, tome 

 xiv. Paris, 1827; and " Essai d'une Flore de File de Zante," par H. Mar- 

 got et F. G. Reuter, published in tome viii. p. 249, and tome ix. p. 1, of the 

 Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 

 Gen. 1839-41. This latter paper contains a great many Romaic, or mo- 

 dern-Greek, names of the plants of Zante. I may also add, for a list of the 

 like names, the Appendix to the tenth volume of Dr. Sibthorp's splendid 

 Flora Graeca mav be examined. 



