ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, I. i. ii-ii. i 



characters belong especially to trees, and our 

 classification of characters belongs more particularly 

 to these ; and it is right to make these the standard 

 in treating of the others. 



Trees moreover shew forth fairly well the other 

 features also which distinguish plants; for they exhibit 

 differences in the number or fewness of these which 

 they possess, as to the closeness or openness of their 

 growth, as to their being single or divided, and in 

 other like respects. Moreover each of the characters 

 mentioned is not '^composed of like parts ' ^ ; by 

 which I mean that though any given part of the root 

 or trunk is composed of the same elements as the 

 v/hole, yet the part so taken is not itself called 

 'trunk,' but "^a portion of a trunk.' The case is the 

 same with the members of an animal's body; to 

 wit, any part of the leg or arm is composed of the 

 same elements as the whole, yet it does not bear the 

 same name (as it does in the case of Hesh or bone ~) ; 

 it has no special name. Nor again have subdivisions 

 of any of those other organic parts^ which are uniform 

 special names, subdivisions of all such being nameless. 

 But the subdivisions of those parts * which are 

 compound have names, as have those of the foot, 

 hand, and head, for instance, toe, finger, nose or eye. 

 Such then are the largest ^ parts of the plant. 



II. Again there are the things of which such parts 

 are com]M)sed, namely bark, wood, and core (in the 

 case of those plants which have it <^), and these are 

 all ' composed of like jmrts.' Further there are 

 the things which are even prior to these, from which 



* i.e the ' compound' parts. 



^ ^v\ov nirpa conj. W. from G. n.T]Tpa ^v\oy MSS. ; 

 l'j\ou, gffa conj. W. ; liiAa, rj otra Ald.H. 



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