ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, I. xi. 4-6 



Further seeds differ in that in some cases they are 

 massed together, in others they are separated and 

 arranged in rows/ as those of the gourd and 

 bottle-gourd, and of some trees, such as the citron. 

 Again of those that are massed together some differ 

 in being contained in a single 2 case, as those of 

 pomegranate pear apple vine and fig ; others in 

 being closely associated together, yet not contained 

 in a single case, as, among annuals, those which are 

 in an ear unless one regards the ear as a case. In 

 that case the grape-cluster and other clustering fruits 

 will come under the description, as well as all those 

 plants which on account of good feeding or excellence 

 of soil bear their fruits massed together, 8 as they 

 say the olive does in Syria and elsewhere. 



But this 4 too seems to be a point of difference, 

 that 5 some grow massed together from a single 

 stalk and a single attachment, as has been said in 

 the case of plants with clusters or ears whose seeds 

 do not grow contained in one common case ; while 

 others grow otherwise. For in these instances, if 

 one takes each seed or case separately, it has its own 

 special point of attachment, for instance each grape 

 or pomegranate,* 3 or again each grain of wheat or 

 barley. This would seem to be least of all the case 

 with the seeds of apples and pears, since 7 these 

 touch one another 8 and are enclosed in a sort of 

 skin-like membrane, outside which is the fruit-case.' 1 

 However each of these too has its own peculiar 

 point of attachment and character ; this is most 



6 TJ re . . . {>6a. : text pei-haps defective ; 7} re paf ftirpvas 

 Kal TTJS poas 6 irvp-hv conj. Bod. 



7 tri conj. Seh.; fat U; foot PMAld. 



8 cf, 8. 5. 2. 9 i.e. pulp. 



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