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Salt marshes, reefs. – Throughout the region. – C.

ELATINACEAE
1342. Elatine alsinastrum L., Sp. Pl.: 368 (1753)
Stagnant or slightly running oligotrophic waters. – Palermitano alla Piana degli Albanesi presso
il Gorgo di Rebottone (Lojacono 1889). – R.

Elatine hydropiper L., Sp. Pl.: 367 (1753)
1343. Elatine hydropiper var. gussonei Sommier, Is. Pelagie (reprint 1908): 76 (1906) [E.
gussonei Brullo & al.]
Close to E. macropoda. – ES – Seasonal ponds, basin on limestone. – Lampedusa (Lojacono
1885). – ?R.
1344. Elatine macropoda Guss., Fl. Sicul. Prodr. 1: 475 (1827)
Occasional ponds on siliceous ground. – Palermo a Mondello (Todaro), Modica, Scicli,
Spaccaforno, Ragusa, Siracusa, Noto (Gussone 1843); Sicilia s.s. e Lampedusa (Lojacono 1889);
Siracusa all’Orecchio di Dionisio (Nicotra 1890 b); Fiumi Anapo e Ciane, Pantani Capo Passero,
Pantano Gariffi (Lopriore 1900); Siracusa (Zodda 1929); Favignana (Raimondo & al. 1981b);
?Favignana (Raimondo & al. 1994). – R.

CUCURBITACEAE

1345. Ecballium elaterium (L.) A. Rich. in Bory, Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 6: 19 (1824)
Debris, sands, preferably along the coasts. – Throughout the region. – CC.

Bryonia cretica L., Sp. Pl.: 1013 (1753)
1346. Bryonia cretica subsp. dioica (Jacq.) Tutin in Feddes Repert. 79: 61 (1968) [Bas. B.
dioica Jacq., Fl. Austriac. 2: 59 (1774); incl. Bryonia sicula Guss.]
Hedges, wet scrubland, debris. – Throughout the coastland. – C.

1347. Bryonia cretica subsp. acuta (Desf.) Tutin in Feddes Repert. 79: 61 (1968) [Bas. B.
acuta Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2: 860 (1799)]
Uncultivated land, walls, hedges. – Lampedusa (Gussone 1845); Malpertuso, da Cefalù al Finale,
M. Gallo, Fiumetorto (Lojacono 1891); ?D: Torr. S. Cataldo (F. Alcantara) (Brullo & Spampinato
1990); Linosa (Di Martino 1958); Lampedusa (Lojacono 1885); M. Pellegrino (Raimondo ed.
1992); Biviere di Gela (Raimondo & al. 2004). – R.

1348. Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai, Catal. Sem. Spor. Hort. Univ. Tokyo:
30 (1916) [Bas. Momordica lanata Thunb., Prodr. Pl. Cap. p. prior: 18 (1794); isony-
mus (Thunb.) Mansf. in Kulturpflanze Beih. 2: 421 (1959)]
Cultivated. – Widely cultivated for the food market, and sometimes subspontaneous (Raimondo
& al. 2005). – C.
1349. Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad. in Linnaea 12: 414 (1838) [Cucumis colocynthis
L., Sp. Pl.: 1011 (1753)]
Sands and uncultivated land near the sea. – Pantelleria (Errera ex Tineo) (Gussone 1845: 880);