And I saw many trees, of very different form from ours, and many of them which had branches of many sorts, and all on one trunk.

And one branch is of one sort and one of another, and so different that it is the greatest wonder in the world.

* * * One branch has its leaves like canes, and another like the lentisk; and so on one tree five or six of these kinds; and all so different.

Nor are they grafted, for it might be said that grafting does it, but they grow on the mountains, nor do these people care for them.

* * * "Here the fishes are so different from ours that it is wonderful.