ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. iv. 2-4 



along with the cultivated forms, as andrachne and 

 hybrid arbutus ; and the wild pear is a little later 

 than the cultivated. Some again bud both before 

 zephyr begins to blow, and immediately after it has 

 been blowing. Before it come cornelian cherry and 

 cornel, after it bay and alder ; a little before the 

 spring equinox come lime zygia Valonia oak fig. 

 Hazel ^ oak and elder are also early in budding, and 

 still more those trees which seem to have no fruit 

 and to grow in groves,'^ abele elm willow black 

 poplar ; and the plane is a little later than these. 

 The others which bud when the spring is, as it were, 

 becoming established,^ are such as wild fig alaternus 

 cotoneaster Christ's thorn terebinth hazel * chestnut. 

 The apple is late in budding, latest of all generally 

 are ipsos ^ (cork-oak) aria (holm-oak) tetragonia 

 odorous cedar yew. Such are the times of budding. 

 The flowering times in general follow in proportion ; 

 but they present some irregularity, and so in still 

 more cases and to a greater extent do the times at 

 which the fruit is matured. The cornelian cherry pro- 

 duces its fruit about the summer solstice ; the early 

 kind, that is to say, and this tree is about the earliest 

 of all.** The late form, which some call 'female 

 cornelian cherry ' (cornel), fruits quite at the end of 

 autumn. The fruit of this kind is inedible and its 

 wood is weak and spongy ; that is what the difference 

 between the two kinds amounts to. The terebinth 

 produces its fruit about the time of wheat-han'est or 



(usually ' beginning '). to 5* iXAa ia-rep eytarr. conj. W. ; tb 

 S' iA.A<»r irep' U ; ra 5e iAA.ci> j irfpitviffTafifvov MAld. H. 



* Kapva can hardly be right both here and above. 



* See Index. 



* aX^^^" 3:arirep -rpStrov not in G, nor in Plin. (16. 105) ; text 

 perhaps defective. 



