12-01-2017, 02:27 PM
We just had people agree on the ID for Carthamus tinctorius in the other thread...
And I'm not asking for proof, I just wonder what in the plants makes you think that they are just there to create a mood so the author can tell us about Aristotelian wisdom? What links the plants to Aristotle? What kind of mood are they supposed to convey?
And I'm not asking for proof, I just wonder what in the plants makes you think that they are just there to create a mood so the author can tell us about Aristotelian wisdom? What links the plants to Aristotle? What kind of mood are they supposed to convey?

