ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VII. x. 1-3 



its proper season and is not l affected even by rain. 

 For some are plants which belong properly to 

 summer as to their growth and their flowering, 

 as golden thistle and squirting cucumber, as was 

 said 2 of shrubby plants and of konyza caper and 

 the rest ; for of these too none blooms or grows 

 before its proper season. Wherefore in this respect 

 too these plants would seem to differ from trees. 

 For trees make their growth all at once or nearly 

 so, or at all events we may say that they do so 

 all at one season ; but the plants of which we 

 are now speaking have their times of growing and 

 still more of flowering at many or rather at all 

 seasons ; so that, if one will consider it, both the 

 growing and the flowering are almost continuous 

 throughout the year ; for one continually succeeds 

 to another, so that all seasons are covered ; thus 

 after the dandelion 8 will come the crocus 4 anemone 

 groundsel and the other plants of winter, and after 

 these those of spring summer 5 arid autumn. Some 

 again, as was said, because they do not produce all 

 their bloom at once, 6 cover a longer season ; for 

 there are some that thus bloom, for instance 

 dandelion 7 bugloss 8 chicory plantain, and others ; but 

 because of this continuity and overlapping it does 

 not seem easy in some cases to define which first 

 make growth and which are late in growing, 

 unless 9 one were to lay down that the 'year' 



7 a-rrdirr) conj. W. ; oc^/nj Aid. cf. 7. 7. 1 n. 



8 oj/ox^Aes conj. Sch. from Plin. 21. 100; Diosc. 4. 24 ; bvo- 

 /a'xXrjs UMAld. 



9 i.e. unless one has a fixed starting-point, -nvo. &pas rtvos 

 apx.? conj. W. ; rtva irpbs rr\ "va. ?}(?) U; text defective in 

 MAld., but both give 'iva p ; W. conjectures also rpoiras ras 

 Xfi/J-epivd'S. ? efvoi &pas TIVOS apx'i'li' or elvai &pav nvo. (omitting 

 ci fj as a trace of a lost sentence). 



