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

Note 2685 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.

John Bostock translation

“Ex pituita.” Fée thinks that under the name of “boleti,” Pliny means exclusively agaries or mushrooms of the division Amanites, which contains both the best and the most noxious kinds—the oronge for instance, and the false oronge.

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