BOOK XXI. L.xi. ioi-L>:v. 105 



and thick down, not unlike the tail of a fox ; " hence 

 too its name. Stelephuros is very Hke it, except 

 that it blossoms bit by bit. Chicory and the plants 

 hke it have leaves near the ground, budding from 

 the root after the Pleiades.* 



I>XII. Perdicium is eaten by othcr peoples 

 besides the Egyptians. The name is derived from 

 the partridge, a bird very fond of pecking it out of 

 the grouiid. It has very many thick roots. There 

 is Hkewise ornithogala, with a tender white stem 

 half a foot long. soft and with three or four offshoots 

 and a bulbous root. It is boiled in pottage. 



LXIII. It is strange that the plant lotos and the 

 aegilops do not germinate from their own seed 

 until a year has passed. Strange too is the nature 

 of anthemis, because it begins to blossom from the 

 top, while ah other plants that blossom bit by bit 

 begin to do so from their bottom part. 



LXIV. A remarkable thing about the hur,B,irami 

 which sticks to one's ck)thes, is that within it there "'"'''P""'^ 

 grows a flower that does not show, but is inside and 

 hidden ; it produces seed within itself, as do the 

 animals that bring to birth inside their own bodies.^ 

 Around Opus is to be found a plant vvhich is also "^ 

 pleasant for a man to eat, and remarkable in that 

 frorn its leaf there grows a root whereby it re- 

 produces itself. 



LXV. Bindweed* has only one petal, but folded in 

 such a way that it seems more than one. ChondryHa 



avTT) t6 di'9os ev eavTJj KaTexovaa Kai iTeTTOvaa KapTioTOKei. 

 For dioTOKrjaavTa l,<x)oyov€L Pliny has simply in se pariiinl ; how 

 inuch of the original he intended to include we can only guess. 



■^ The eti<im represents the koI in Th. I. 7, 3 : ■noi.dpi.ov elvai, 

 o /cai eadieadai ioTiv rjhv. 



' lasine i.s the laaiwvr) of Theophrastua I. 13, 2. 



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