ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IV. x. 1-2 



Of the plants peculiar to the lake of Orchomenos (Lake Copais), 

 especially its reeds; and of reeds in general. 



X. Plants peculiar to particular places must be 

 considered separately, while a general account may 

 be given of those which are generally distributed. 1 

 But even the latter must be classified according to 

 locality ; thus some belong to marshes, others to 

 lakes, others to rivers, or again others may be common 

 to all kinds of locality : we must also distinguish which 

 occur alike 2 in wet and in dry ground, and which 

 only in wet ground, marking these off in a general 

 way from those mentioned above as being most 

 impartial. 3 



Now in the lake near Orchomenos grow the 

 following trees and woody plants : willow goat-willow 

 water-lily reeds (both that used for making pipes and 

 the other kind) galingale phleos bulrush ; and also 

 ( moon-flower ' duckweed and the plant called 

 marestail : as for the plant called water-chickweed 

 the greater part of it grows under water. 4 



Now of these most are familiar : the goat-willow 

 water-lily ' moon-flower ' duckweed and marestail 

 probably grow also elsewhere, but are called by 

 different names. Of these we must speak. The 

 goat-willow is of shrubby habit and like the chaste- 

 tree : its leaf resembles that leaf in shape, but it is 

 soft like that of the apple, 5 and downy. The bloom 6 

 is like that of the abele, but smaller, and it bears no 

 fruit. It grows chiefly on the floating islands ; (for 

 here too there are floating islands, as in the marshes 



4 TOVTOV TO. v\fi(a KaQ' v5. conj. Sch. ; TOVTO TrAeiw TO /cafl* vS. 

 UM ; TOVTO irXciov rb Had' i>8. Aid. 



5 fj.v\(at perhaps here = quince (/j.ij\ea Kvtiavla). 



6 &v6os here = catkin. 



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