ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IX. xx. 5-6 



north and are dry : wherefore of those which grow 

 in Euboea best, they say, are the drugs of Aigai or 

 Telethrion, these places being dry, while Telethrion 

 is also shady. 



1 Thus we have spoken of drugs, those that are 

 medicinal and those that have virtues of whatsoever 

 kind, whether in the root itself, or in the juice, or in 

 any other of their parts, and in general of all the 

 shrubby or herbaceous plants which have such 

 virtues, as well as their tastes, whether they be 

 fragrant or without fragrance, with the differences 

 between them, which are equally part of their 

 essential character. 



1 This section begins a tenth book in UMAld.H.O ; cf. 

 9. 8. 1 n. The concluding words can hardly represent the 

 original text. 



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