ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. x. 4-xi. i 



winter-hiid ^ on a separate stalk ; it is green, when 

 in the cu[)-like stage, but brownish as it opens ; it 

 appears at the same time as in the cultivated trees. 

 The fi'uit is rounded oblong as large as a bean, 

 resembling the fruit of the ivy ; v.hen mature, it 

 has five angular projections, as it were, made by 

 projecting fibres which meet in a point ; the im- 

 mature fruit is less articulated. When the mature 

 fruit is pulled to pieces,- it shows some small fine 

 seeds of the same size as those of orach. The leaf and 

 the bark ^ are well flavoured and sweet ; the leaf is 

 like that of the ivy in shape, except that it rounds 

 more gradually, being most curved at the part next 

 the stalk, but in the middle contracting to a sharper 

 and longer apex, and its edge is somewhat puckered 

 and jagged. The tiniber contains little core, which 

 is not much softer than the other part ; for the rest 

 of the wood is also soft. 



Oj majyh and «-sA. 



XI. Of the maple, as we have said,^ some make ^ 

 two kinds, some three ; one they call by the general 

 name ' maple,' another zt/gia, the third klinotrokhos ^' ; 

 this name, for instance, is used by the people of 

 Stagira. The difference between zygia and maple 

 proper is that the latter has white wood of finer 

 fibre, while that of zygia is yellow and of compact 

 texture. The leaf '^ in both trees is large, resem- 

 bling that of the plane in the way in which it is 



® k\iv6tpoxov AXA.; K\iv6ffTpoxov \I : hoTfioxov coiij. Salm, 

 from Plin. 16. 66 and 67, ciirstvenium or cra-^iiicnium. Sch. 

 thinks that the word conceals 7Arj'oj ; c/. 3. 3. 1 ; 3. 11. 2. 



' <p6A\oi> conj. R. Const.; ^v\ov UMVAld.H.G. 



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