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

Note 197 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN.

John Bostock translation

Fée thinks that it is the grain of the Festuca fluitans of Linnæus that is here alluded to, and identifies it with the “ulva palustris” of Virgil, Geor. iii. 174.

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