Enquiry into Plants, Vol. 2

established where a breeze from the sea does not reach. This is why it does not grow in Arcadia, while savory, marjoram, and such plants are common in many parts. (A similar peculiarity is found in the olive; for it appears that it likewise will not grow more than three hundred furlongs from the sea.)

The difference between sphakos (sage) and elelisphakos (salvia) is like that between cultivated and wild; for the leaf of sphakos is smoother, smaller, and less succulent, while that of elelisphakos is rougher.

There are also two kinds of horehound: one has a narrow leaf with a more jagged edge, and the notches are very conspicuous and deep, and this is the plant used by druggists for certain purposes; the other has a rounder leaf, which, like that of sphakos, is not at all succulent; the notches are less conspicuous and the edge less jagged.

Of konyza there is a "male" and a "female" kind, the differences between them being such as are usual between forms so distinguished; the "female" has slenderer leaves, is more compact, and is a smaller plant; the "male" is larger, has thicker stalks, is more branched, has larger, glossier leaves, and moreover the flower is more conspicuous. Both bear fruit; the plant as a whole is late in growing and in blooming; it blooms about the rising of