CHAP. 12. (3.)—MISY; ITON; AND GERANION.
Of a similar nature, too, is the vegetable production known in the province of Cyrenaica by the name of "misy,"1 re- markable for the sweetness of its smell and taste, but more fleshy than the truffle: the same, too, as to the iton2 of the Thracians, and the geranion of the Greeks.