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also erect, and it has soft wood and a soft heart-wood, 

 so that the slender boughs are hollow throughout. 

 The leaf is like that of the pear, but larger and 

 more fibrous. It has rough bark, which on the inner 

 side is red : wherefore it is used for dyeing hides. 

 It has shallow roots . . . l the flower is as large as 

 that of the bay. It grows in wet places 2 and 

 nowhere else. 



The semyda^ has a leaf like that of the tree called 

 the ' Persian nut'(walnut), but it is rather narrower: 

 the bark is variegated and the wood light : it is only 

 of use for making walking-sticks and for no other 

 purpose. 



The bladder-senna 4 has a leaf near that of the 

 willow, but is many-branched and has much foliage ; 

 and the tree altogether is a large one. The fruit is 

 in a pod, as in leguminous plants : the pods in fact 

 are broad rather than narrow, and the seed in them 

 is comparatively small, and is moderately hard, but 

 not so very hard. For its size the tree does not 

 bear much fruit. It is uncommon to have the fruit 

 in a pod ; in fact there are few such trees. 



Of filbert, terebinth, box, krataigos. 



XV. The filbert is also naturally a wild tree, in that 

 its fruit is little, if at all, inferior to that of the tree 

 in cultivation, that it can stand winter, that it grows 

 commonly on the mountains, and that it bears 

 abundance of fruit in mountain regions 5 ; also because 

 it does not make a trunk, but is shrubby with 



4 Sch. remarks that the description of KoAurea is out of 

 place : c/. 3. 17. 2. W. thinks the whole section spurious. 

 The antitheses in the latter part suggest a different context, 

 in which KoXvrta was described by comparison with some 

 other tree. 6 opetois conj. W.; Qopais Aid. 



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