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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 308 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

He borrows this notion of the oat being wheat in a diseased state, from Theophrastus. Singularly enough, it was adopted by the learned Buffon.

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