Note 2781 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
“Hordeum murinum.” Anguillara, Matthioli, and Sprengel identify it with the Lolium perenne of Linnæus; but, as Fée says, it is clear that Pliny had in view the modern Hordeum murinum, mouse-barley.