ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, I. in. S-IY. i 



Again the distinctions between fruitless and fruit- 

 bearing, 1 flowering and flowerless, seem to be due 

 to position and the climate of the district. And 

 so too with the distinction between deciduous and 

 evergreen. 2 Thus they say that in the district of 

 Elephantine neither vines nor figs lose their leaves. 



Nevertheless we are bound to use such dis- 

 tinctions. 3 For there is a certain common character 

 alike in trees, shrubs, under-shrubs, and herbs. 

 Wherefore, when one mentions the causes also, 

 one must take account of all alike, not giving 

 separate definitions for each class, it being reasonable 

 to suppose that the causes too are common to all. 

 And in fact there seems to be some natural difference 

 from the first in the case of wild and cultivated, 

 seeing that some plants cannot live under the 

 conditions of those grown in cultivated ground, 

 and do not submit to cultivation at all, but de- 

 teriorate under it ; for instance, silver-fir fir holly, 

 and in general those which affect cold snowy 

 country ; and the same is also true of some of the 

 under-shrubs and herbs, such as caper and lupin. 

 Now in using the terms ' cultivated ' and ' wild ' 

 4 we must make these 5 on the one hand our standard, 

 and on the other that which is in the truest sense fl 

 ' cultivated.' 7 Now Man, if he is not the only 

 thing to which this name is strictly appropriate, is at 

 least that to which it most applies. 



Differences as to appearance and habitat. 



IV. Again the differences, both between the plants 

 as wholes and between their parts, may be seen in 



6 SAws Trpbs rb. ? nobs rb '6\us conj. St. 



7 & 8' frvdpuiros . . . y\p.epov. I have bracketed this clause, 

 which seems to be an irrelevant gloss. 



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