ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VI. vi. 3-5 



like the white ion (gilliflower) in which the colour 

 evidently varies ; as does still more that of the 

 Hlies, if it be true, as some say, that there is a 

 crimson kind. 1 



2 Among roses there are many differences, in 

 the number of petals, in roughness, 3 in beauty 

 of colour, and in sweetness of scent. Most have 

 five petals, but some have twelve or twenty, and 

 some a great many more than these ; for there 

 are some, they say, w r hich are even called ' himdred- 

 petalled.' Most of such roses grow near Philippi ; 

 for the people of that place get them on Mount 

 Pangaeus, where they are abundant, and plant 

 them. However the inner petals 4 are very small, 

 (the way in which they are produced being such 

 that some are outside, some inside). Some kinds 

 are not fragrant nor of large size. Among those 

 which have large flowers those in which the part 5 

 below the flower is rough are the more fragrant. 

 In general, as has been said, good colour and scent 

 depend upon locality ; for even bushes which are 

 growing in the same 6 soil shew some variation in 

 the presence or absence of a sweet scent. Sweetest- 

 scented of all are the roses of Gyrene, wherefore 

 the perfume made from these is the sweetest. 

 (Indeed it may be said generally that the scents " 

 of the gilliflowers 8 also and of the other flowers 

 of that place are the purest, and especially the 



6 rfj aiTTJ conj. Sch.; roicivrr) U; roiavra M. 



7 &Kparoi /j.d\i<rra KeWi at 6<r/u.a( conj. Sch. after Saracenus 

 on Diosc. 1. 25; Athen. I.e. (&Kparot jj.a.\iara na\ 6e~iai at 

 offjj.a.i) ; aKparoi- fj.d\i(rra 5' exeivov of ocr.uaf Aid.; e/ce? at bffp.a.\ 

 (rest uncertain) U. cf. C P. 6. 18. 3. 



8 ? violets ami gilliflowers : see Index. 



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