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

Note 2524 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS.

John Bostock translation

Probably the Hippophaës rhamnoides of Linnæus. This, however, Fée says, has no milky juice, but a dry, tough, ligneous root. Sprengel identifies it with the Euphorbia spinosa of Linnæus, on account of its milky juice; but that plant, as Fée remarks, does not bear berries, properly so called, and the fruit is yellow and prickly.

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