Note 2125 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 17)
Reading edition
Frezier, Voyage to the South Seas, Lond. 1717. p. 13.—Turner in his Herbal (1568) gives the plant an opposite character, for the bruised leaves, says he, “swage the brestes or pappes swellinge wyth to muche plenty of milke.”