Latin Texts & Translations

The leaves of plants, as well as those of trees, differ from one another in the length of the footstalk, and in the breadth or narrowness of the leaf, and the angles and indentations perceptible on its edge. Other differences are also constituted in respect of their smell and blossom. The blossom remains on longer in some of those plants which flower only a little at a time, such as the ocimum, ^[Note] the heliotropium, ^[Note] the aphace, and the onochilis, ^[Note] for example.

(17.) Many of these plants, the same as certain among the trees, never lose their leaves, the heliotropium, ^[Note] the adiantum ^[Note] and the polium, ^[Note] for instance.