Note 150 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.
John Bostock translation
“Anguli.” Dalechamps interprets this as two rows of grain; but Fée thinks that it signifies angles, and points. The Polygonum fagopyrum of Linnæus, he says, buck-wheat, or black-wheat, has an angular grain, but he doubts whether that can possibly be the grain here alluded to.