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are two kinds ; the one with leaves like those of the 

 chickling-pea, the other with priekly leaves. The 

 latter blossoms later, and tends to be common in 

 the enclosures round country houses. Its seed is 

 rounder, black, and in a pod ; that of the other is 

 like sand." Of prickly plants there is yet another Re.tt-harTow. 

 kind — rest-harrow. For it has prickles on the 

 branches, to which are attached leaves Hke those of 

 rue, the whole stem being covered with leaves so 

 that it looks like a chaplet. It springs up on newly 

 ploughed kands, is harmful to the crops and 

 extremely long-lived. 



LIX. Ihe stems of some pricklv plants trail '^,"'^'" 



1 L 11 r 1 z' 1 1 plants. 



along the ground, those lor example ot the plant 

 called coronopus. On the other hand anchusa 

 (alkanet), the root of wliich is used for dyeing 

 wood and wax, stands upright, as do, of the culti- 

 vated ** kinds, anthemis, phyllanthes, anemone and 

 aphace. Crepis and lotus have a foliated stem. 



LX. The leaves of these plants differ as do the 

 leaves of trees : in shortness or length of stalk, in the 

 narrowness of the leaf itself, in its size, and further 

 in the corners, and indentations ; smell and blossom 

 differ also. The blossom lasts longer on some of them, 

 which flower one part at a time, on ocimum for 

 example, and on hehotropium, aphace and onochilis. 

 Many of these plants, Hke certain trees, have leaves 

 that never die, the chief being heliotropium, 

 adiantum, hulwort. 



LXI. Eared plants are yet another kind, to which Vanous 

 belong achynops, alopecuros, stelephuros — by some ^ow^.^^es. 

 called ortyx, by others plantago, about which I shall 

 speak more fully in the section on medicinal plants " 

 — and thryallis. Of these alopecurus has a soft ear 



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