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1 It is the mucilage of the perisperm that is so useful in medicine. As an article of food, the farina of linseed is held in no esteem whatever. In times of scarcity, attempts have been made to mix it with flour or meal, but the result has been found to be heavy and indigestible, and has caused, it is said, the death even of those who have eaten of it in considerable quantities.
2 There are various other methods employed of dressing flax at the present day; but they are all of them long and tedious.
3 And not feminine or servile.
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CYRENA´ICA
- Smith's Bio, Heren'nia Gens