ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VI. n. 4-6 



established l where a breeze from the sea does not 

 reach. This is why it does not grow in Arcadia, 

 while savory marjoram and such plants are common 

 in many parts. (A similar peculiarity is found in 

 the olive ; for it appears that it likewise will not 

 grow more than three hundred furlongs from the 

 sea.) 



The difference between sphakos 2 (sage) and 

 elelisphakos (salvia) is like that between cultivated and 

 wild ; for the leaf of sphakos 3 is smoother smaller 

 and less succulent, 4 while that of elelisphakos is 

 rougher. 5 



There are also two kinds of horehound : one has a 

 narrow leaf with a more jagged edge, and the notches 

 are very conspicuous and deep, and this is the plant 

 used by druggists for certain purposes; the other has 

 a rounder 6 leaf, which, like that of sphakos, is not at 

 all succulent ; the notches are less conspicuous and 

 the edge less jagged. 



Of konyza 7 there is a ( male ' and a ' female ' 

 kind, the differences between them being such as 

 are usual between forms so distinguished ; the 

 ( female ' has slenderer leaves, is more compact, and 

 a smaller plant ; the ' male ' is larger, has thicker 

 stalks, is more branched, has larger glossier leaves, 

 and moreover the flower is more conspicuous. Both 

 bear fruit ; the plant as a whole is late in growing 

 and in blooming ; it blooms about the rising of 



3 ff(pa.Kov conj. Sch. ; o-^o/ccAov UMVP 2 Ald. 



4 W. omits $TTOV before avxwpATfpov. 



6 TpaxvTepov conj. Seal, from G ; fipaxvTfpov Aid. H. 

 % " ffTpoyyv\oTfpov : cf. 1. 10. 4 n. 



7 See Index. Plin. 26. 58. c/. Nic. Ther. 875 ; Diosc. 

 3. 121. 



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