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1 The Heliotropium Europæum of botanists. See B. xxii. c. 29.
2 This may possibly, Fée says, be efficacious against some insects.
3 See B. xviii. c. 45.
4 A mere puerility, of course, though it is very possible that the insects may collect in it, and so be more easily taken. Garden-pots, on sticks, are still employed for this purpose.
5 See B. xvi. c. 30.
6 "Culices," including both flies and gnats, probably.
7 See B. xii. c. 56.
8 An almost literal translation of Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B. vii. c. 6.
9 This is certainly not true with reference to the leguminous and gramineous plants. It is pretty generally known as a fact, that wheat has germinated after being buried in the earth two thousand years: mummy-wheat, at the present day, is almost universally known.
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