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

Note 159 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.

John Bostock translation

These varieties are not known at the present day, and Fée questions if they ever existed. There is a black barley found in Germany, the Hordeum nigrum of Willdenow.

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