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

Note 1496 — BOOK XX. REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THE GARDEN PLANTS.

John Bostock translation

As to the identification of the “bulbs,” see B. xix. c. 30. The wild bulbs, Fée is of opinion, are probably the Nigrum allium or Moly of modern Botany; and the Allium schœnoprasum belongs, in his opinion, to the cultivated bulbs.

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