ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, III. xvm. 13 



by sheep, is fatal ^ to them, both the leaf and the 

 fruit, and it is especially fatal to goats unless they 

 are purged by it ; and the purging is effected by 

 diarrhoea.2 So we have spoken of trees and 



shrubs ; in what follows we must speak of the 

 plants which remain. 



^ In Pletho's excerpt (see above) this is said of periwinkle. 

 ' I.e. and not by vomiting. 



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