Note 602 — BOOK XII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TREES. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
The umbelliferous plant known as the Heracleum spondylium of Linnæus. It is commonly found in France, where it is called Berce-branc-ursine. It received its name from the resemblance of its smell to that of the sphondyle, a fetid kind of wood-beetle.