ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VI. vm. 1-3 



flower. These, of all the flowers that the garland- 

 makers use, far outrun the others. After these come 

 pheasant's eye 1 and polyanthus 1 narcissus (and, among 

 wild plants, the kind of anemone which is called 

 the ' mountain anemone ') 2 and the ' head ' 3 of purse- 

 tassels ; for this too some interweave in their gar- 

 lands. After these come dropwort violet, and of 

 wild plants, gold-flower, 4 the meadow kind of 

 anemone corn-flag hyakinthos (squill), and pretty 

 well all the mountain flowers that are used. The 

 rose comes last of these, and is the first of the 

 spring flowers to come to an end, as it is the first to 

 appear, for its time of blooming is short. So too is 

 that of the rest of the wild plants mentioned, except 

 hyakinthos^ the wild kind (squill), and also the culti- 

 vated (larkspur) ; this lasts on, and so does the gilli- 

 flower, and for a still longer time the wallflower, 

 while the violet, as has been said, 6 blooms throughout 

 the year, if it receives tendance. So too dropwort 7 

 (for that too is one of the plants valued for their 

 flowers, though it is herbaceous 8 in character) if 

 one pinches off and removes the flower instead of 

 letting it go to seed, and if, further, 9 it has a sunny 

 position. The flower is clustering and white, like 

 that of the wild . . . . 10 These then are, we may 

 say, the plants of spring. 



11 The following belong rather to summer : rose- 

 campion carnation krinon 12 (lily) spike-lavender and 



6 6. 6. 2 ; cf. C.P. 1. 13. 12. 7 cf. 6. 6. 11. 



8 iro&Sfs : sense not obvious ; euwSes conj. Dalec. cf. C.P. 

 1. 13. 12. 9 tri conj. W.; gr* UMAld. 



10 Ut labruscae G, perhaps a guess : see olvdvOii in Index. 



11 Plin. 21, 67 and 68. 



12 Kplvov Sch. from Atheri. I.e.; so also Plin, I.e.; KypivQoi 

 Aid. 



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