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"[Plin. Nat. 20.45.] - APIASTRUM, OR MELISSOPHYLLUM.
Hyginus gave the name of “apiastrum” to melissophyllum: but that which grows in Sardinia is poisonous, and 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.”
(The Natural History. Pliny the Elder. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855.)