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With respect to Nettles—᾿ακαλήφη is the name given by the Attic writers to a plant which is herbaceous and which produces itching. Aristophanes says, in his Phœnissæ, “that pot-herbs were the first things which grew out of the earth; and after them the rough stinging-nettles.”

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