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[603] λωτός. The lotus here is a sort of trefoil or clover, not to be confounded with the lotus of bk. 9. According to Sprengel, Bot. Hist., it is the Lotus corniculatus of Linnaeus. κύπειρον may be rendered ‘galingale,’ the pseudo-cyperus of Pliny, a marshplant.

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