ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. xr. 4-xii. i 



one ' ash ' (manna-ash), the other ' horse-asli ^ ' (ash). 

 The ' horse-ash ' is a larger and more spreading ^ 

 tree, wherefore it is of less compact appearance. 

 It is naturally a tree of the plains and rough, Avhile 

 the other belongs to the mountains and is smooth ^ ; 

 the one which grows on the mountains is fair-coloured 

 smooth hard and stunted, while that of the plains is 

 colourless spreading and rough. (In general one 

 may say of trees that grow in the plain and on the 

 mountain respectively, that the latter are of fair 

 colour hard and smooth,^ as beech elm and the 

 rest ; while those of the plain are more spreading, 

 of less good colour and inferior, except the pear 

 apple ^ and wild pear, according to the people of 

 Mount Olympus. These when they grow in the 

 plain are better both in fruit and in wood ; for on 

 the mountain they are rough spinous and much 

 branched, in the plain smoother larger and with 

 sweeter and fleshier fruit. However the trees of the 

 plain are always of larger size.) 



Of coi-ndian cherry, coiniei, 'cedars,' medlar, thorns, sorb. 



XII. Of the cornelian cherry there is a 'male' and 

 a 'female' kind (cornel), and the latter bears a corre- 

 sponding name. Both have a leaf like that of the 

 almond, but oilier and thicker ; the bark is fibrous and 

 thin, the stem is not very thick, but it puts out side- 

 branches like the chaste-tree, those of the 'female' 

 tree, which is more shrubby, being fewer. Both 

 kinds have branches like those of the chaste-tree, 



' Koi rpaxv . . . Kt7ov conj. Sch.; koI \uov . . . rpaxv Aid. 



* A€7a conj. Mold.; Aeu(ca Ald.G, 



* ^rjA.eas conj. Seal., c/. 3. 3. 2; ^eAi'os UMAld.H. 



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