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

Note 2778 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

Altogether a different plant; Sprengel identifies it with the Reseda Mediterranea, but Fée dissents from that opinion, and is inclined to agree with the opinion of Dalechamps, that it is the Daphne Tartonraira of Linnæus, which is a strong purgative.

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