Notes on the current edition
Enquiry into Plants
1.
1 Plin. 16. 23.
2.
² τὸ δὲ. . . . τοιαῦτα: this sentence seems out of place, as ἁλίφλοιος was not one of the ‘Macedonian’ oaks mentioned above (Sch.).
3.
¹ συγγενῶν conj. R. Const.; ἀγγείων UAld.; ἐγγείων MV m Bas.
4.
² γνώριμοι conj. R. Const.; γνώριμος U Ald.H.; γνώριμα conj. W.
5.
³ ὀρθότερον conj. R. Const.; ὀξύτερον UMVAld.
6.
4 μελαντέρᾳ . . . εὐωδεστέρᾳ conj. W.; μελάντεραι δὲ πίττη καὶ γλυκύτεραι καὶ λεπτότεραι καὶ εὐωδέστεραι UMV; μελαντέρα
7.
¹ εὐκτεανωτέρα: εὐκτηδονωτέρα conj. R. Const. cf. 5. 1. 9; but text is supported by Hesych. s.υ. ἰθυκτέανον.
8.
² Ι omit καὶ before τὰ κύκλῳ.
9.
3 Plin. 16. 44.
10.
¹ πικρὰν conj. R. Const. from G; μικρὰν VAld.
11.
² καὶ ταύτην μεγάλην πρὸς conj. Sch.; καὶ τὴν μεγ. πρὸς UMV; μεγάλην πρὸς Ald.
12.
1 παχύτερον conj. W.; πλατύτερον Ald.
13.
² Plin. 16. 48 and 49. ³ For the tense see Intr. p. XX.
14.
4 φύλλον, i.e. the leafy shoot. Sch. considers φύλλον to be corrupt, and refers the following description to the cone; W marks a lacuna after φύλλον. Pliny, ι.c., seems to have read φύλλον, but does not render καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἔλαττον . . . κυνέαις. The words καὶ ἐπ᾿ ἔλαττον can hardly be sound as they stand. For the description of the foliage cf. 1. 10. 5.