ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. xn. 3-5 



them both 'cedar/ distinguishing them however as 

 ' the cedar ' l and ' prickly cedar.' Both are branching 

 trees with many joints and twisted wood. On the 

 other hand arkeuthos has only a small amount of 

 close core, 2 which, when the tree is cut, soon rots, 

 while the trunk of ' cedar ' consists mainly of heart 

 and does not rot. The colour of the heart in each 

 case is red : that of the ' cedar ' is fragrant, but not 

 that of the other. The fruit of ' cedar ' is yellow, 

 as large as the myrtle-berry, fragrant, and sweet 

 to the taste. That of arkeuthos is like it in 

 other respects, but black, of astringent taste and 

 practically uneatable ; it remains on the tree for a 

 year, and then, when another grows, last year's fruit 

 falls off. According to the Arcadians it has three 

 fruits on the tree at once, last year's, which is not 

 yet ripe, that of the year before last which is now 

 ripe and eatable, and it also shews the new fruit. 

 Satyrus 3 said that the wood-cutters gathered him 

 specimens of both kinds which were flowerless. The 

 bark is 4 like that of the cypress but rougher. Both 5 

 kinds have spreading shallow roots. These trees 

 grow in rocky cold parts and seek out such districts. 

 6 There are three kinds of mespile, anthedon 

 (oriental thorn), sataneios (medlar) and anthedonoeides 

 (hawthorn), as the people of mount Ida distinguish 

 them. 7 The fruit of the medlar is larger paler 

 more spongy and contains softer stones ; in the other 



irvKvi]v ; but the words KCL\ '6rav . . . crjjTro/ievrjv (which P. does 

 not render) seem inconsistent. ? ins. ov before raxv Sch. 



3 ? An enquirer sent out by the Lyceum : see Intr. p. xxi. 



4 x t conj. W. ; eSJ/eet Aid. 



6 a^JrepoJ conj. W. ; a/j.(f)orepas U; ajjuporepovs Aid. H. 



6 Plin. 15. 84. 



i cf. C.P.2. 8. 2; 6. 14. 4; 6. 16. 1. 



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