ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. n. 5-111. i 



else, all kinds grow, because of the diversity of 

 positions afforded them. For such mountains offer 

 positions which are marshy, wet, dry, deep-soiled or 

 rocky ; they have also their meadow land here and 

 there, and in fact almost every variety of soil ; again 

 they present positions which lie low and are shel- 

 tered, as well as others which are lofty and exposed 

 to wind ; so that they can bear all sorts, even those 

 which belong to the plains. 



Yet it is not strange that there should be some 

 mountains which do not thus bear all things, but 

 have a more special kind of vegetation to a grea 1 , 

 extent if not entirely ; for instance the range of Ida 

 in Crete l ; for there the cypress grows ; or the hills 

 of Cilicia and Syria, on which the Syrian cedar 

 grows, or certain parts of Syria, where the terebinth 

 grows. For it is the differences of soil which give 

 a special character to the vegetation. 2 (However 

 the word ' special ' is used here in a somewhat 

 extended sense.) 



Of mountain trees : of the differences found in wild trees. 



III. The following trees are peculiar to mountain 

 country and do not grow in the plains ; 3 let us 

 take Macedonia as an example. Silver-fir fir ' wild 

 pine' lime zygia Valonia oak box andrachne yew 

 Phoenician cedar terebinth wild fig alaternus hybrid 

 arbutus hazel chestnut kermes-oak. The following 

 grow also in the plain : tamarisk elm abele willow 

 black poplar cornelian cherry cornel alder oak lakare 

 (bird-cherry) wild pear apple hop-hornbeam holly 

 manna-ash Christ's thorn cotoneaster maple, 4 which 



4 <r<j>(v$aij.vos add. Palm, in view of what follows ; otvdxap-ra 

 UPAld.Bas.j 6.Ka.vQos P 2 . 



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