Both witnesses Thompson aimed at live in the margins of one served chapter. In the text, Smyrna, pursued by her sword-drawn father, prays to vanish, and "the gods in compassion turned her into the tree which they call smyrna (myrrh)" [The Library (Bibliotheca), BOOK III, ch. XIV]. That the tree's gum is her grief is Frazer's sentence, not Apollodorus's: "The drops of gum which oozed from the myrrh-tree were thought to be the tears" shed by the transformed girl [ibid., editor's note]. The page's second tear-plant is wholly editorial: Apollodorus "passes over in silence" the Phaethon story, so Frazer supplies the mourning sisters, "till they were turned into poplar trees, their tears being changed into drops of amber" [ibid., editor's note]. So the shelf holds the transformations in the text and the tear-properties in the apparatus — no served primary line yet says the weeping became the plant's signature. The nearest served cousin is not a plant at all: in the north a duck retrieves Wainamoinen's harp-wept tears from the sea-floor, and "This the origin of sea-pearls" [The Kalevala, Rune XLI]. Myrrh, amber, pearl — three receipts for grief, and on our shelf all three hang from editors or cousins, none yet from a primary line about a plant.