ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, VIII. iv. 2-3 



features ; and again in capacities 1 and properties. 2 

 3 Of barley different sorts have respectively two, three, 

 four, and five rows of seeds ; the largest number 4 

 known is six, for there is a kind which bears that 

 number. And those which have more rows have 

 generally the grains set closer together. Another 

 great difference is that of having side-shoots, as we 

 said of the Indian kind. 5 Again in barley 6 the 

 ears are in some kinds large and of looser make, 

 in some smaller and set closer; in some kinds 

 the ear is some way from the 'leaf,' in some it is 

 nearer to it, as in the kind called ' Achillean.' 7 

 Again of the grains themselves some are rounder 

 and smaller, some more oblong and larger and set 

 at wider intervals on the ear. Moreover some are 

 white, some black or reddish, and the latter are 

 thought to produce much meal and to be more 

 robust than the white as to bearing winter wind or 

 conditions of climate generally. 



There are 8 also many kinds of wheat which take 

 their names simply from the places where they 

 grow, 9 as Libyan Pontic 10 Thracian Assyrian 

 Egyptian Sicilian. They show differences n in 

 colour size form and individual character, and 

 also 12 as regards their capacities 13 in general and 

 especially their value as food. Some again get 



5 Referred to 4. 4. 9, but without mention of this feature. 

 8 TOLS KpiOais conj. W. ; TTJS Kpi6rjs Aid. 



7 cf. C.P. 3. 21. 3; 3. 22. 2. 



8 effTiv evOvs conj. W.; fvQvs IffTiv Aid. 



9 cf. C.P. 3. 21. 2; Plin. 18. 2. 



10 TlovTiicol conj. Sch. ; -n 6vrtoi Aid. 



11 Siacpopas conj. W. ; Sia^fpovrcs Ald.H. 



12 Kal conj. W. ; 5 Aid. 



13 Explained below, 8. 4. 4 : pace of growth. 



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