ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VIII. n. 2-3 



the seed is attached to the pod or ear, whereas the 

 contrary is the case with the seeds of certain trees, 

 as almond hazel acorn l and the like. And in all 

 these plants the root begins to grow a little before 

 the stem; whereas in certain trees 2 the bud first 

 begins to grow within the seed itself, and, as it 

 increases in size, the seeds split for all such seeds 

 are in a manner in two halves, and those of 

 leguminous plants again all plainly have two valves 

 and are double and then the root is immediately 

 thrust out; but in cereals, 3 since the seeds are in 

 one piece, 4 this does not 5 occur, but the root grows a 

 little before the bud. 



Barley and wheat come up with a single leaf, but 

 peas beans and chick-peas with several. 6 A11 the 

 leguminous plants have a single woody root, and 

 also slender 7 side-roots springing from this. The 

 chick-pea is about the deepest rooting of these, and 

 sometimes it has side-roots ; but wheat barley 

 and the other cereals have a number of fine roots, 

 wherefore they are matted together. 8 Again all 

 such plants have many branches and many stems. 

 And there is a sort of contrast between these two 

 classes ; the leguminous plants, which have a single 

 root, have many side-growths above from the stem 

 all except beans ; while the cereals, which have 

 many roots, send up many shoots, 9 but these have 



3 ffntlpois conj. W. ; x e fyo7rois UMAlct. 



4 Katf *v avra conj.W.; Kara rb avrb UMAld. 

 6 ou conj. Seal, from G ; ovv UMAld. 



6 Plin. 18. 51. 



7 AeTrras conj. St.; AeTrrai Aid. H. 

 s rappdSr) : cf. 6. 7. 4. 



9 /j.fv conj. Sch.; yap Ald.H. 



