CHAP. 61.—THE VARIOUS KINDS OF EARED PLANTS: THE STAN-
YOPS; THE ALOPECUROS; THE STELEPHUROS, ORTYX, OR PLAN-
TAGO; THE THRYALLIS.
The eared [Note] plants form another variety: among them we
find the cynops, [Note] the alopecuros, [Note] the stelephuros, [Note] also
known to some persons as the ortyx, [Note] and to others as the
plantago, of which last we shall have occasion [Note] to speak more
at length among the medicinal plants, and the thryallis. [Note]
The alopecuros, among these, has a soft ear and a thick down,
not unlike a fox's tail in fact, to which resemblance it owes
its name. The plant most like [Note] it is the stelephuros, were it
not that it blossoms only a little at a time. In the cichorium
and similar plants, the leaves are near the ground, the buds
springing from the root just after the rising of the Vergiliæ. [Note]
