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

Note 2519 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.

John Bostock translation

Probably the Fagonia Cretica and the Trapa natans of Linnæus. See B. xxi. c. 58. The first, Fée remarks, is a native of Candia, the ancient Crete, and a stranger to the climates of Greece and Italy. This may account for Pliny calling it a garden plant.

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