Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs
By: Theophrastus ; with an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort
Contributors: Hort, Arthur, Sir, 1864-1935, translator
Series: The Loeb classical library. Greek authors -- no. 80, 79; Loeb classical library -- 79, 80.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Pre-Linnean works; Botany
Notes: Volume 2 has imprint: London, Heinemann; Cambridge, Harvard University Press.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages xiii-xx).

Greek and English on opposite pages.
Table of contents: title: V. 1. Of the parts of plants and their composition, of classification. Of propagation, especially of trees. Of wild trees. Pf the trees and plants special to particular districts and positions. Of the timber of various ress and its uses; title: v. 2. Of under-shrubs. Of herbaceous plants, other than coronary plants : pot-herbs and similar wild herbs. Of herbaceous plants : cereals, pulses, and "summer crops". Of the juices of plants, and of the medicinal properties of herbs. Introduction to the treatises concerning odours and concering weather signs.