ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VIII. i. y-n. 2 



ground has been well tilled l and given dung, or if 

 neither of these things has been done : for the soil 

 makes a difference even as to the early or late 

 germination of each crop. In Hellas some are used 

 to sow everything earlier because of the coldness of 

 the soil, for instance the Phocians ; 2 the object being 

 that the winter may not overtake the crop while it is 

 still tender. 



Of differences in the mode of germination and of subsequent 

 development. 



II. In germinating some of these plants produce 

 their root and their leaves from the same point, some 

 separately, from either end of the seed. Wheat 

 barley one-seeded wheat, and in general all the 

 cereals produce them from either end, in a manner 

 corresponding to 3 the position of the seed iri the ear, 

 the root growing from the stout lower part, the shoot 

 from the upper part ; but the part corresponding to 

 the root and that corresponding to the stem form a 

 single continuous whole. Beans and other leguminous 

 plants do riot grow in the same manner, but they 

 produce the root and the stem from the same point, 

 namely the point at which the seed is attached to 

 the pod, which, it is plain, is a sort of starting point 

 of fresh growth. In some cases there is also a forma- 

 tion resembling the penis, as in beans chick-peas 

 and especially in lupins; from this 4 the root grows 

 downwards, the leaf and the stem upwards. 



There are then these different ways of germinat- 

 ing ; but a point 5 in which all these plants agree is 

 that they all send out their roots at the place where 



4 TOVTOV conj. Sch.; TOVTCOV Aid. cf. C.P. 4. 7. 4. 



5 cf. C.P. 4. 7. 7. 



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