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

Note 2162 — BOOK XXI. AN ACCOUNT OF FLOWERS, AND THOSE USED FOR CHAPLETS MORE PARTICULARLY.

John Bostock translation

The root is not large; but the fruit is so close to the earth that Pliny may have confounded it with the real root of the plant.

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