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Spignel
Meum athamanticum
Meum athamanticum is a glabrous, highly aromatic (aroma compound), perennial plant - the only species (monotypic) in the genus Meum, belonging to the family Apiaceae. Common names in the U.K. include Baldmoney, Spignel,(also Spiknel and Spikenel) and Meu. It is a plant of grassland, often on limestone, in mountain districts of Western Europe and Central Europe, its range extending as far south as the Sierra Nevada (Spain) of Andalucia, and central Bulgaria in the Balkans. It...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.125
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.125
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.44
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.50
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.200
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.209
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.371
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.323
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.580
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.302
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 359468.