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

Note 1085 — BOOK XIX. THE NATURE AND CULTIVATION OF FLAX, AND AN ACCOUNT OF VARIOUS GARDEN PLANTS.

John Bostock translation

Fée suggests that Pliny may have intended here to except the Monocotyledons, for otherwise his assertion would be false.

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