PLINY : NATURAL HISTORY 



-!1 quinquefoliae, quae Graecis altera est. omnis autem 

 recisione atque usiione proiicit, tralatione quoque, 

 iit vites, optime ocissimeque provenit surculis quater- 

 num digitorum lonijitudine aut ampliore post ver- 

 giliarum occasum sata, dein per favonium translata 

 pedalibus inter\allis crebro circumfossa. qui prae- 

 cocem faciunt pedali circa radicem scrobe aquam 

 calidam infundunt germinare incipiente calice. 



22 XI. Lilium rosae nobilitate proximum est et 

 quadam cognatione unguenti oleique, quod lilinum 

 appellatur. et inpositum etiam maxime rosas decet 



23 medio proventu earum incipiens. nec ulli flonmi 

 excelsitas maior, interdum cubitorum trium, languido 

 semper collo et non sufficiente capitis oneri. candor 

 eius eximius foris striati et ab angustis in latitudinem 

 paulatim sese laxantis effigie calathi, resupinis per 

 ambitum labris tenuique pilo et stamine,i stantibus 

 in medio crocis. ita odor colorque duplex, et alias 

 calicis alius staminis, differentia angusta.^ in un- 

 guenti vero oleique usu et folia non spernuntur. 

 est flos non dissimilis illi in herba quam convolvolum 



^ stamine Deilefsen : semine codd. : staminis (sine commate) 

 Mayhnff. 



* angusta cum codd. Mayhoff : etiam gustu Deilefsen. 



" The "first" Greek kind would be the lychnis of § 18. 



* See II. § 125 where Pliny tells us that the Pleiades set on 

 11 November and (§ 123) rise on 10 May, giving the beginning 

 of summer. For west wind, see p. 211, note h. 



' The madonna lily, Lilium oandidvm. 



** Usually in shape hke a truncated cone. 



' I think that pilo refers to pistil and Mnmine to the stamens. 

 The reading here is doubtful, as is the construction of the 

 ablatives. Possiblj- : "' the croci (anthers) standing in the 

 centre with slender filaments and pistil." 



^ With Detlefsen'8 conjecture : " even in taste." 



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