The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (of 6)Note 1986 — BOOK XXVII. A DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, AND OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THEM.John Bostock translationThis is an exaggeration; Dioscorides says “millet.”◇Copy noteReturn to BOOK XXVII. A DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, AND OF THE REMEDIES DERIVED FROM THEM.