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



anthemon whose flowers have no petals 1 (wild camo- 

 mile) alkanet grass anemone hawk's beard plantain 

 dandelion 2 ; the following have leaves on the stem 

 ox-tongue the anthemon which has petalled flowers 3 

 trefoil gilliflower ; while chicory has both kinds of 

 leaves ; for this plant produces, 4 as well as leaves, a 

 certain number of flowers on the stems at the points 

 where the side-shoots are attached. Similar too are 

 some of the plants with spinous leaves, but not those 

 that are altogether spinous, as sow-thistle. 



Of other differences seen in herbaceous plants in general, as 

 compared with one another and with trees. 



IX. Again some are barren, while others bear 

 fruit, and, speaking generally, of herbaceous plants 

 some get as far as producing leaves only, others have 

 a stem and flower, but no fruit ; some again have 

 fruit as the completion of their development, while 

 some bear fruit even though they have no flower, as 

 is the case with some trees. 



5 The leaves of herbaceous plants again differ in 

 hardly fewer, nay, even in more, ways than those 

 of trees, and further, they present differences as 

 compared with these, the chief being perhaps that 

 some are attached by a leaf-stalk, some are attached 

 directly, some attached with cauline appendages. 

 And in some herbaceous plants the stalk 7 is the first 

 part to grow, but in most the leaves, which almost 

 at the outset grow to their largest and are best for 

 eating ; whereas the leaves of trees always push out 

 first a sort of stalk. 



5 Plin. 21. 100. 



6 i.e. petiolate, sessile, and decurrent respectively. 



7 6 Kav\bs add. Sch. from G. 



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