Notes on the current edition
Enquiry into Plants
1.
¹ The opening of the description of the diseases of trees seems to have been lost. 2 κράδι; cf. C. P. 5. 1. 3.
2.
³ πάντως. . . γίνεται conj. W.; πάντως δὲ ὁ πρὸς τῇ γῇ καὶ οἷον τ. κ. στ. ἀπογηράσκων τῶν παχυτέρων γίνεται Ald.; so U except παχύτερον, and M except παχύτερος.
3.
4 πόγγρους: cf. Hesych., s.υυ. γόγγρος, κροτόνη.
4.
5 The word is otherwise unknown.
5.
6 ἧττον· ἡ δὲ ἐλάα conj. W.; ἧττον· ἡ δὲ φοῖνιξ πάραβλασ- ητικέν· ἡ δὲ ἐλαα U; so Ald. except παραβλαστικόν. The
6.
¹ οὗν marked as doubtful in U. ² 1. 3. 2.
7.
³ καὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κάλλιστον. The first part of the sentence to which these words belong is apparently lost (W.).
8.
⁴ i.e. the fir and other trees mentioned in the lost words.
9.
5 Plin. 16. 80.
10.
6 μίλος conj. Sch.; σμίλαξ P2Aid.; cf. 3. 3. 3.
11.
1 Plin. 16. 80.
12.
² Some words probably missing (W.) which would explain the next two clauses. 3 Plin. 16 82. ⁴ 1. 3. 5.
13.
5 Plin. 12. 11; Varro, 1. 7.
14.
1 Plin. 16. 82 and 83.