The eared2234 plants form another variety: among them we find the cynops,2235 the alopecuros,2236 the stelephuros,2237 also known to some persons as the ortyx,2238 and to others as the plantago, of which last we shall have occasion2239 to speak more at length among the medicinal plants, and the thryallis.2240 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 like2241 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.2242