Enquiry into Plants, Volume II: Books 6-9. On Odours. Weather Signs

Theophrastus

Translated by Arthur F. Hort

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$24.00 • £15.95 • €19.50

ISBN 9780674990883

Publication: January 1916

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520 pages

4-1/4 x 6-3/8 inches

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Enquiry into Plants
- Book 6: Of Under-Shrubs
  - Of the classification of under-shrubs: the wild kinds: the chief distinction that between spinous and spineless
  - Of spineless under-shrubs and their differences
  - Of certain specially important spineless under-shrubs—silphium and magydaris—belonging to ferula-like plants
  - Of spinous under-shrubs and their differences
  - Of cultivated under-shrubs (coronary plants), with which are included those coronary plants which are herbaceous
  - Of the seasons at which coronary plants flower, and of the length of their life
- Book 7: Of Herbaceous Plants, Other than Coronary Plants: Pot-Herbs and Similar Wild Herbs
  - Of the times of sowing and of germination of pot-herbs
  - Of the propagation of pot-herbs, and of differences in their roots
  - Of the flowers and fruits of pot-herbs
  - Of the various forms of some pot-herbs
  - Of the cultivation of pot-herbs; manure and water
  - Of the pests which infest pot-herbs
  - Of the time for which seed of pot-herbs can be kept
  - Of uncultivated herbs: the wild forms of pot-herbs

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