Previously Unpublished Works of Roger Bacon, Fascicle 11: Questions on Aristotle's Metaphysics and On Plants (1932) - Page 21

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It is asked concerning the cause of the aroma in plants: it is asked what is the material cause In Aristotelian science, the "material cause" refers to the physical matter or substance that allows a quality—like scent—to exist.	231
It is asked, since dryness is twofold, which kind of dryness is the cause of aroma	231
It is asked concerning the efficient cause The "efficient cause" is the agent or force that brings something into being; here, what process actually produces the scent. of aroma	232
It is asked whether any plant can be aromatic	232
It is asked whether every plant is aromatic	232
It is asked whether it is possible for a plant to be aromatic	233

It is asked how a plant is generated	234

It is asked whether a plant arises in its perfect meaning: full or completed size	235
It is asked, since the generator of a plant gives it its material principle, whether it also gives it its formal principle The "formal principle" is the essence or "blueprint" that makes a thing what it is (e.g., what makes an oak an oak).	236
It is asked whether there is a detached virtue of the soul original: "virtus anime." This refers to the life-force or biological power that governs growth and nutrition. within the seed	237

It is asked whether a grain has substance	238
It is asked whether a grain is the virtue of the soul	239
(It is asked whether a plant can be generated from that seed in which there is neither the substance of the soul nor its virtue)	240

It is asked whether life is sent out or cut off into a plant cutting	241
It is asked concerning a plant cutting, whether it has a soul	242
It is asked how that part possesses that soul	242
It is asked, since the soul is not left behind by the plant from which it is severed by division, whether the virtue of the soul and the dispositions for the soul are left behind there	243
It is asked from where it receives its soul	243

It is asked how a part of a plant that has been sent out or cut off can preserve its life	244
It is asked whether it is possible for a part to be grafted original: "inseratur." Grafting is the horticultural technique of joining a shoot from one plant onto the stem of another.	244
It is asked whether the scion original: "surculus." The young shoot used for grafting. receives a new soul there	244
It is asked whether the plant into which the insertion is made receives a new soul	245
It is asked, if the corruption of the soul That is, the death or loss of the vital life-force of a specific part. of something should occur, to which part it should more likely belong: the scion, the stock, or the trunk? original: "stipitis." The "stock" is the established plant or root onto which the scion is joined.	245

It is asked whether it happens at any time that the nature of the stock is changed into the nature of the scion	246
It is asked whether those two become one according to their essence	247
It is asked whether, from those two regarding their bodies, one single body is made according to number	248