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leguminous plants some have a round leaf, as beans 

 and most others, some a more oblong leaf, as pea 

 lathyros okhros and the like. x Some again have 

 fibrous leaves, others leaves without veins and fibres. 

 Again sesame 2 and erysimon 2 have leaves quite 

 distinct from these. 



Again the stem of cereals is jointed and hollow ; 

 wherefore it is called the ' reed,' while that of the 

 bean is hollow, 3 and that of the other leguminous 

 plants is more woody, that of chick-pea woodiest 

 of all ; of the summer crops that of millet and 

 Italian millet 4 is reed-like, that of sesame and 

 erysimon is more like the stem of ferula. Some 

 again have erect stems, as wheat barley and 

 in general the cereals and summer crops ; some 

 have rather a crooked stem, as chick-pea vetch 

 lentil ; some a creeping stem as okhros pea lathyros ; 

 while calavance, if long stakes are set by it, climbs 

 them and becomes fruitful, whereas otherwise the 

 plant is unhealthy and liable to rust ; the bean, 

 most of all leguminous .plants, if not 5 alone among 

 them, has an erect stem. 



The flowers also shew differences in character 

 and in position (of which matters we have to some 

 extent treated in our general account) 6 ; thus 

 some are ' downy,' 7 as those of corn 8 and of any 

 plant that has an ' ear ' ; others are ' leafy,' 9 as 

 those of leguminous plants, and in most cases they 

 are irregular 10 flowers ; for most of these have 



meaning is that such flowers may be classed with those 

 distinguished by this term in 1. 13. 1, as not being petaloid. 

 8 airov Kol Travrlts rov ffraxvwSovs conj. Sch. from dl, tit 

 omnium fere gerenfium spicam ; irov Kal -navrbs rov x^w5ous 

 UMAld. 9 Sc. petaloid. 



10 cf. 6. 5. 3. i.e. they depart from radial symmetry. 



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