ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, I. x. IO-XL 2 



Of flowers some 1 are composed of bark veins and 

 Hesh, some of flesh only, 2 as those in the middle of 

 cuckoo-pint. 3 



So too with fruits ; some are made of flesh and 

 fibre, some of flesh alone, and some of skin 4 also. 

 And moisture is necessarily found in these also. 

 The fruit of plums and cucumbers is made of flesh 

 and fibre,, that of mulberries and pomegranates of 

 fibre and skin. The materials are differently distri- 

 buted in different fruits, but of nearly all the outside 

 is bark, the inside flesh, and this in some cases 

 includes a stone.) 



Differences in seeds. 



XI. Last in all plants comes the seed. This possesses 

 in itself natural moisture and warmth, and, if these 

 fail, the seeds are sterile, like eggs in the like case. 

 In some plants the seed comes immediately inside 

 the envelope, as in date filbert almond (however, as 

 in the case of the date, there may be more than one 

 covering). In some cases again there is flesh and a 

 stone between the envelope and the seed, as in olive 

 plum and other fruits. Some seeds again are enclosed 

 in a pod, some in a husk, some in a vessel, and some 

 are completely naked. 



5 Enclosed in a pod are not 6 only the seeds ot 

 annual plants, as leguminous plants, and of con- 

 siderable numbers of wild plants, but also those of 

 certain trees, as the carob-tree (which some 7 call 

 the ' Egyptian fig '), Judas-tree, 8 and the koloitia 9 

 of the Liparae islands. In a husk are enclosed the 



7 TIV rives conj. St. from G ; ^vriva. Ald.H. 



8 Clearly not the Kep/c/s (aspen) described 3. 14. 2. 

 " KoXoiria MSS.; KoXovrea. conj. .St., cf. 3. 17. 2 n. 



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