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

Note 2506 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.

John Bostock translation

Or “sweet-root,” our liquorice; the Glycyrrhiza glabra of Linnæus. In reality, Fée remarks, there is no resemblance whatever between it and the Eryngium, no kind of liquorice being prickly.

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