Theophrastus Enquiry into Plants 3.15

ed. Arthur Hort

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Enquiry into Plants. Theophrastus. ed. Arthur Hort. United States. 2017.

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Enquiry into Plants

1. ¹ Part of the description of the flower, and perhaps of the fruit, seems to be missing. Sch.
2. ² cf. 4. 8. 1 ; but in 1. 4. 3 the alder is classed with ‘am phibious’ trees, and in 3. 3. 1 with ‘trees of the plain.’
3. ³ Betulam, G from Plin. 16. 74.
4. ¹ cf C.P. 2. 12. 6. ² cf. Geop. 10. 68.
5. ³ λεῖον conj. W.; πλέον UMVAld.
6. ¹ πλείω : sc. φύλλα, in loose apposition to φύλλον. Ap- parently the leaf is said to resemble that of οίη in its compo· site structure, but that of the bay in shape: cf. 3. 12. 7.
7. ² ἂπαν ἅμα conj. W.: ἅμα ἅπαν UAld.
8. ³ cf. 2. 8. 3: 3. 7. 3: 3. 14. 1. κωρυκώδη conj. R. Coast.: κορυώδη Ald.; κωουώδη H.; καρυώδη mBas.