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

Note 975 — BOOK XIX. THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND AN ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS GARDEN PLANTS.

John Bostock translation

As Fée says, he must be speaking of the fruit here, and not the plant, which attains a far greater length than nine feet.

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