ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. xm. 6-xiv. i 



fragrance of lilies. The fruit is in like manner 

 attached to a single thick stalk, but in a cluster : 

 as it becomes quite ripe, 1 it turns black, but when 

 unripe it is like unripe grapes ; in size the berry is a 

 little larger than the seed of a vetch ; the juice is 

 like wine in appearance, and in it men bathe 2 their 

 hands and heads when they are being initiated into 

 the mysteries. The seeds inside the berry arc like 

 sesame. 



3 The willow also grows by the water, and there 

 are many kinds. There is that which is called 

 the black willow 4 because its bark is black and 

 red, and that which is called the white 4 from the 

 colour of its bark. The black kind has boughs 

 which are fairer and more serviceable for basket- 

 work, while those of the white are more brittle. 5 

 There is a form both of the black and of the white 

 which is small and does not grow to a height, just 

 as there are dwarf forms of other trees, such as 

 prickly cedar and palm. The people of Arcadia 

 call the tree 6 not ( willow ' but helike : they believe, 

 as was said, 7 that it bears fruitful seed. 



Of elm, poplars, alder, [semyda, bladder -senna']. 



XIV. 8 Of the elm there are two kinds, of which 

 one is called the ' mountain elm/ the other simply 

 the ' elm ' : the difference is that the latter is 

 shrubbier, while the mountain elm grows more 

 vigorously. The leaf is undivided and slightly 

 jagged, longer than that of the pear, but rough 



4 See Index. 



5 waTrupwTe'pay conj. Sch. ; Kal irvpurepat U ; /cal irvporcpas 

 MVAld. cf. 3. 13. 4. 



6 Sc. tVe'a generally. 7 3. 1. 2. 8 Plin. 16. 72. 



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