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THEOPHRASTUS

370 b.c. THEOPHRASTUS, who was a friend and disciple of Plato and Aristotle, mentions the paeony in his books on the Enquiry into Plants. He calls the plant " the paeony which some call glykyside," and goes on to say how it should be dug up at night, for " if dug up in day-time and a woodpecker observes him he risks the loss of his eyesight." Theophrastus died about 285 b.c.

quoted after Stern, Study 1946