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A Year with the Birds

Note 81 — Chapter VII · THE BIRDS OF VIRGIL.

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Theophrastus, for example, applies it to the Egyptian mimosa, the thorns of which lately proved so damaging to our troops in the Soudan. (Lenz, Botanik der Griechen, p. 735.)

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