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20.45 CHAP. 45.—APIASTRUM, OR MELISSOPHYLLUM.

Hyginus gave the name of "apiastrum" to melissophyl- lum: [Note] but that which grows in Sardinia is poisonous, and

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universally condemned. I speak here of this plant, because I feel it my duty to place before the reader every object which has been classified, among the Greeks, under the same name.



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