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fragrance of lilies. The fruit is in like manner 

 attached to a single thick stalk, but in a cluster : 

 as it becomes quite ripe,^ it turns black, but when 

 unripe it is like unripe grapes ; in size the berry is a 

 little larger than the seed of a vetch ; the juice is 

 like wine in appearance, and in it men bathe - their 

 hands and heads when they are being initiated into 

 the mysteries. The seeds inside the berry are like 

 sesame. 



^ The willow also grows by the water, and there 

 are many kinds. There is that which is called 

 the black willow^ because its bark is black and 

 red, and that which is called the white * from the 

 colour of its bark. The black kind has boughs 

 which are fairer and more serviceable for basket- 

 work, while those of the white are more brittle.* 

 There is a form both of the black and of the white 

 which is small and does not grow to a height, — just 

 as there are dwarf forms of other trees, such as 

 prickly cedar and palm. The people of Arcadia 

 call the tree '^ not ' willow ' but helike : they believe, 

 as was said,^ that it bears fruitful seed. 



0/ elm, pojylars, aider, [semyda, bladder-senna]. 



XIV. s Of the elm there are two kinds, of which 

 one is called the ' mountain elm,' the other simply 

 the ' elm ' : the difference is that the latter is 

 shrubbier, while the mountain elm grows more 

 vigorously. The leaf is undivided and slightly 

 jagged, longer than that of the pear, but rough 



* See Index. 



' KawvpwTfpa^ conj. Sch.; koI irvpwrfpai U; (tat irvpoTfpas 

 MVAld. cf. 3. 13. 4. 

 « Sc. iTfo generally. " 3. 1. 2, » PlJn. 16, 72. 



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