The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)

by the Elder Pliny

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,”[881] remarkable for the sweetness of its smell and taste, but more fleshy than the truffle: the same, too, as to the iton[882] of the Thracians, and the geranion of the Greeks.