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The name appears to have been given to both the Leontodon taraxacum and the Lathyrms aphaca of modern botany. 89 Theophrastus has Picris in the parallel passage, Hist. Plant. B. Vii. C. 9, the Helminthia echioides of Linnaeus. If " Crepis" is the correct reading, that plant has not been identified. 90 The herbaceous kinds are no doubt those alluded to. 91 See B. Xix. Cc. 31, 36, and 44 ; and B. Xx. C. 48. The ocimum of the Greeks has been identified by some with the Ocimum basiiicum of Lin- nae...us, our basil. That of the Romans seems to have been a name given to one or more varieties of leguminous plants of the vetch kind. 92 The Heliotropium Europaeum. See B. Xxii. C. 29. 93 This plant has not been identified, but Fe is inclined, from what Dioscorides says, B. Iv. C. 24, to identify it with either the Lithospermum fruticosum, or else the Anchusa Italica of Linnaeus. 94 This is not the case, if this plant is identical with the Heliotropium Europaeum, that being an annual. 95 The Adiantum Capillus Veneris of Linnaeus, or the Asplenium trich- omanes of Linnaeus.
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