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

Note 2581 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.

John Bostock translation

In erroneously giving it this name, Fée remarks that Pliny has confounded the pseudoanchusa with the ἔχιον of the Greeks, the Echium rubrum of Linnæus, and has attributed to it the characteristics of the latter plant.

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