292 ^ OLIVES, VINES, AND CORN 



f^ccupo ; P/o-/, rice ; Po,G/5( *, tares ; Bp&J^/, oats ; Bp/o-», rye ; <px(TovXi, kid- 

 ney-beans ; (pocKi ', ^o'/Gj ; BiKix ', Xczdovfii ; u^ko \ civv^oi, anise; (rovTutxr,, 

 Sesamum ; x,ovf/,ivc, cummin. 



PRODUCE OF WHEAT IN DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF GREECE. 



[FROM MB. HAWKINS.] 



In the plain of Argos, Mavrogkni (black bearded wheat) in favor- 

 able seasons gives ten for one. 



In the best pait of Megara and Eleusis the same sort of wheat 

 produces in favorable seasons twelve for one. 



In the plain of Vocca near Corinth, under the same circumstances, 

 the produce of white wheat, Asprositi, is ten for one, but that of the 

 other sort amounts to fifteen for one. 



The kind of wheat called Grinias, in the rich plain of Phoneas 

 (Pheneus in Arcadia) yields in modei'ately good years twelve for one. 

 In the plains of Milias (Mantinea) and Kandila in Arcadia, where 

 several sorts of wheat are cultivated, the produce in favorable years 

 is twelve for one. 



In the plains of Thessaly, the sort called Devedishi, or camel's 

 tooth wheat, here cultivated almost exclusively, produces in moder- 

 ately favorable years twelve for one, but in extraordinary seasons 

 fifteen for one, and I heard of an instance of eighteen for one. 



• Po/3i in another part of Sibthorp's journals is applied to Ervum Ervilia, and is culti- 

 vated in Cyprus for the use of camels and oxen. The word a[u;^of is found in Du Cange 

 under <pa<rwMv ; perhaps it is the term which Dr. S. intended to use. In another part of 

 his papers mm is Pisum ochrus. 



