ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VII. m. 5-iv. 2 



Some things again come to resemble in their shape 

 even the position l in which they grow : thus the 

 bottle-gourd becomes like in shape to the vessel 2 in 

 which it has been placed. 



Moreover differences in taste are acquired in some 

 cases when the seed has been treated specially 

 beforehand ; for instance, the seed of the cucumber 

 produces a fruit with different taste if it is soaked 3 

 in milk before sowing. But such matters belong 

 perhaps more properly to the subject of cultivation. 



Of the various forms of some pot-herbs. 



IV. Of some herbs there are several kinds, but of 

 others only one, as basil monk's rhubarb blite cress 

 rocket orach coriander dill rue ; of each of these 

 they say that there is 4 but one kind. But of others 

 there is more than one, as radish cabbage beet 

 cucumber gourd cummin garlic lettuce. Differences 

 are marked in the leaves, the root, the colour, the 

 taste, and so forth. 



Thus of radish they recognise these various kinds 5 

 the Corinthian, that of Cleonae, the Leiothasian, 

 amorea, the Boeotian. The Corinthian is said to 

 be the strongest in growth, and it has an exposed 

 root ; for it pushes upwards, and not downwards like 

 the others. The Leiothasian 6 is called by some the 



ou8e yevovs Sia<f>opa.v rcav 8e a.va.ira.\iv TrAetco yevrj ; Plin. 19. 123 

 rather supports H. ? read as in H. : ruv 8e ecm is perhaps 

 an attempt to fill the lacuna. 



6 c/. Plin. 19. 75 and 76, who gives a kind called viride in 

 place of T.'s a/iwpe'o : see below. After /Sa^aytSos there is a 

 lacuna in UMAld. (but U has TV 8e p.6pav Boiom'ai'). Text 

 restored from Athen. 2. 48 (c/. Plin. I.e.). Cam.H.Bas. (also 

 Vo.Vin.(?)) give substantially the same. 



6 The name suggests Thasos, off the Thracian coast. 



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