ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VI. VH. 2-4 



wild bergamot-mint, and wild forms of the other 

 plants mentioned, having a more pungent smell. 

 Thyme is sometimes 1 quite like cultivated thyme.' 2 

 Now it is plain that these wild forms possess this 

 means of reproducing themselves. 3 



Southernwood actually grows more readily from 

 seed than from a root 4 or a piece torn off (though 

 it grows even from seed with difficulty) ; however 

 it can be propagated by layering in pots in summer- 

 time, like the ( gardens of Adonis ' 5 ; it is indeed 

 very sensitive 6 to cold and generally delicate even 

 where the sun shines brightly ; but, when it is 

 established and has grown, it becomes tall and 

 strong and tree-like, like rue, except that the latter 

 is much more woody drier and less succulent. 



7 Sweet marjoram grows in either way, from pieces 

 torn off or from seed ; it produces a quantity of seed, 

 which is fragrant with a delicate scent ; it can also 

 be transplanted. 8 Southernwood also produces much 

 seed, which has some scent. This plant has straight 

 roots which run deep ; it has, as it were, its single 

 stout root, from which the others spring; 9 while 

 sweet marjoram tnyme bergamot-mint and calamint 

 have surface 10 roots which are much divided and 

 matted ; in all these plants the roots are woody, 

 but especially in southernwood, because of its size 

 and because it is so dry. 



I.e. so far as that passage is intelligible but 5e before tv 

 offTpaKOis add.W. ; after eV bffrp. supply ^\aff7avei. 



6 cf. Plat. Phaedo 276 B and Thompson's n. Sir W. 

 Thiselton-Dyer in Companion to Greek Studies, 99, p. 65. 



6 cf C.P. 4. 3. 2. 7 Plin. 21. 61. 



8 pfTatyvTevea-Qai conj. Sch. from G ; /u6Ta</>iW0at Aid. 



9 fyl-nffiv add.W. 



10 Twro\aiovs conj. Seal.; M vo\\ovs MAld. cf. C P 2 

 16. 5. 



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