ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VII. vn. 3 -vm. i 



spontaneously. The growth alike of these * and of 

 others takes place in some cases with the first rains 

 after the equinox, for instance, dandelion 2 rib- 

 grass and the plant which some call buprestis ; 

 in other cases after the rising of the Pleiad, for 

 instance, chicory and most of the plants of that 

 class. Some produce their flower immediately at the 

 time of making growth, as lesser celandine, some not 

 long after, as anemone, while some as soon as spring 

 comes send up both their stems and flower, as chicory 

 and the plants which resemble it, and those spinous 

 plants which come under the head of pot-herbs. 



There is much difference in the flowers, of which 

 we have spoken already ; for such difference is a thing 

 common to all ; and some are altogether flowerless, 

 as stonecrop. 3 Those which produce their flower 

 with the stem 4 quickly shed the flower ; except that 

 dandelion, 5 when the first flower is past its prime, 

 produces another and yet another, and continues to 

 do so right through the winter and spring up to the 

 summer. Groundsel 6 also blooms for a long time ; 

 the others however do not do this ; for instance the 

 crocus does not, neither the scented (saffron crocus) 

 nor the white nor the spinous kind, 7 which last are 

 scentless. 



Of the, differences in stem and leaf found in all herbaceous 

 plants. 



VIII. A distinction which is found in all herbaceous 

 plants alike is the following : some have straight 



5 avdin] 'yrjp^ffavTos COnj. W. ; aTTrjyrjpdffavros U ; airoyrjpd- 

 travros MAld. ; a<j>dicn avoynpaffavros H. cf. Plin. I.e. ; 7. 7. 1 n. 



6 cf. C.P. 1. 22. 4; Plin. 25. 106. 



7 See Index. This plant can only have been called KpoKos 

 because it produced a yellow dye. 



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