ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS, IV. x. 1-2 



Of the plants peculiar to the lake of Orchomenos (Lake Copdis), 

 especially its reeds ; and of reeds in general. 



X. Plants peculiar to particular places must be 

 considered separately, while a general account may 

 be given of those which are generally distributed.' 

 But even the latter must be classified according to 

 locality ; thus some belong to marshes, others to 

 lakes, others to rivers, or again others may be common 

 to all kinds of locality : we must also distinguish which 

 occur alike ^ in wet and in dry ground, and which 

 only in wet ground, marking these off in a general 

 Mray from those mentioned above as being most 

 impartial. 3 



Now in the lake near Orchomenos grow the 

 following trees and woody plants : willow goat-willow 

 Avater-lily reeds (both that used for making pipes and 

 the other kind) galingale phleos bulrush ; and also 

 ' moon-flower ' duckweed and the plant called 

 niarestail : as for the plant called water-chickweed 

 the greater part of it grows under water.* 



Now of these most are familiar : the goat-willow 

 v.ater-iily ' moon-flower ' duckweed and marestail 

 jrobably grow also elsewhere, but are called by 

 different names. Of these we must speak. The 

 goat-willow is of shrubby habit and like the chaste- 

 tree : its leaf resembles that leaf in shape, but it is 

 soft like that of the apple,-^ and downy. The bloom ^ 

 is like that of the abele, but smaller, and it bears no 

 fi-uit. It grows chiefly on the floating islands ; (for 

 here too there are floating islands, as in the marshes 



* TOVTOv TO xXeta) Kaff vS. conj. Sch. ; tovto ir\eia) to Kaff vS. 

 t M ; TOVTO irAtiOl' T^ KoO' vS. Aid. 



5 fi-n\€ai perhaps here = quince (/iTjXe'a KvSaria). 



* iivdoi here = catkin. 



