What are the characteristics of Labelese?

[Koen G]

If labels from a random other book, in the same quantity and size as here in the VMS 

It would be interesting to compare "labelese" to labels in another text, not only for TTR but also (in the case of a language like Latin) to compare the relative frequency of certain syllables (thinking nominative endings for example). I just can't think of a good candidate. And there are additional complications: even if the VM labels are true labels, we still don't know what kind of information they convey. Star names or star properties or who knows what else? 

Maybe a specifically targeted experiment could be to compare the ca. 200 VM small-plant labels to labels in a herbal. I was thinking of the Sloane Tractatus but upon closer inspection it appears that its "labels" are often a full sentence.