ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VII. xi. 3-4 



and roots they exhibit great differences ; for in 

 some these are simpler and fewer/ but the stem 

 of chicory is large and has many side-shoots ; also 

 it is tough and hard to break, wherefore it is used 

 for withes 2 ; it makes side-growths from the root, 

 and also has long roots, wherefore it is hard to 

 kill ; for, when the top is taken off to use as a 

 vegetable, what remains 3 starts growing again. 

 Moreover different parts of it flower at different 

 times, and the flowering goes on till autumn, since 

 the stem appears to be hard. 4 Also it bears a pod, 

 which contains the seed, at the top of the stem. 



Cat's ear 5 is smoother and has a more cultivated 

 appearance, and is also sweeter and not like 6 

 khondrylla 7 ; for the latter is altogether uneatable 

 and 8 unfit for food, and its root contains a quantity of 

 pungent juice. 



Dandelion 9 is also unfit for food and bitter : it 

 flowers early and quickly waxes old and the flower 

 turns to pappus ; but then another flower forms, and 

 yet another, and this goes on right through the winter 

 and spring up to the summer; and the flower is 

 yellow. 



10 The like may be said of pikris : for this plant 

 too blooms in spring, and like dandelion it flowers 

 throughout the winter, and it flowers also to some 

 extent in summer ; in taste it is bitter, whence its 

 name. These are the special points of difference 



7 x v $P v ^ a conj. St.; x av $pv ^B U; xai>8pv a\\a M; 

 XavSpas oAA.a Aid. H. ; cadryalia G (Tarv. ) ; candralia G (Bas. 

 Par.). 



8 rb yap o\ov OVK eSuiSmos aurrj /cal conj. W. ; rb o\ov OVK eS. 

 avTf) yap Aid. ; OI/'TTJ yap aPpuros conj. Sch. from Plin. 21. 105. 



9 airdw-n conj. W.; ad>a/crj Aid. cf. 7. 7. 1 11. 

 1 Plin. 22. 66. 



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