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 iton[2] of the
Thracians, and the geranion of the Greeks.
1. Fée takes this to be the Tuber niveum of Desfentaines, the snow-
white truffle. It is globular and somewhat piriform, grows to the size of a
walnut, and sometimes of an orange, and is said to be most delicate eating.
2. These truffles or morels do not appear to have been identified.