ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IX. VH. 3-vm. i 



kostos all-heal saffron-crocus myrrh kypeiron ginger- 

 grass sweet-flag sweet marjoram lotos dill. Of these 

 it is the roots, bark, branches, wood, seeds, gum or 

 flowers which in different cases yield the perfume. 

 Some of them grow in many places, but the most 

 excellent and most fragrant all come from Asia and 

 sunny regions. From Europe itself comes none of 

 them except the iris. 



x This is best in Illyria, not in the part near the 

 sea, but in that which is further inland and lies 

 more to the north. In different districts it varies 

 in quality ; no special attention is needed, except to 

 scrape the roots clean and dry them. 



As for the roots which grow in Thrace, such 

 as one 2 which has a smell like spikenard and 

 certain others, their fragrance is but slight and 

 feeble. Let this suffice for an account of sweet- 

 smelling plants. 



Of the medicinal juices of plants and the collection of them : 

 general account. 



VIII. Now we must endeavour to speak in like 

 manner of those juices which have not been 

 mentioned already, I mean, such as are medicinal 

 or have other properties ; and at the same time 

 we must speak of roots ; for some of the juices are 

 derived from roots, and apart from that roots have 

 in themselves divers properties of all kinds ; and 

 in general we must discuss medicinal things of all 

 kinds, as fruit, extracted juice, 3 leaves, roots, ' herbs ' ; 

 for the herb-diggers call some medicinal things by 

 this name. 



3 x v ^ lff Hv P 2 Ald.H ; KO.V\OV conj. W. The list is of the 

 aspects in which the herbalist would regard the plant, not of 

 the parts of the plant. 



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