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The leaves of trefoil also are employed for making chaplets. There are three varieties: the first being called by the Greeks sometimes "minyanthes," [Note] and sometimes "asphaltion;" the leaves of it, which the garland-makers employ, are larger than those of the other kinds. The second variety, known as
the "oxytriphyllon," [Note] has a pointed leaf; and the third has the smallest leaf of them all. Among these plants there are some which have a tough, sinewy stem, such as marathron, [Note] for instance, hippomarathron, [Note] and the myophonum. [Note] The umbels, too, of fennel-giant and the purple flowers [Note] of the ivy are employed for this purpose; as also another kind of ivy very similar to the wild rose, [Note] the colour only of which is attractive, the flower being quite inodorous. There are also two [Note] varieties used of the cneorum, the black and the white, this last being odoriferous: they are both of them provided with branches, and they blossom after the autumnal equinox. [Note]
(10.) There are the same number of varieties, also, of origanum employed in making chaplets, one of which is destitute of seed, the other, which is also odoriferous, being known as the Cretan [Note] origanum.
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