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It owes its Latin name lactuca to lac or milk, the plant’s bitter white sap or latex, which is mentioned in many ancient treatises.
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Each plant derives its name, _lactuca_, from its milky juice; in Latin
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The waters are covered with zostera; and in the midst of a very extensive bank of weeds, we distinguish a free and circular spot of three feet in diameter, on which float a few scattered masses of Ulva lactuca.
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Bays popular with Britons from La Baule, a top summer beach destination in southern Brittany, to Granville in the Cotentin are now struggling to dispose of thousands of tons of Ulva lactuca - more commonly known as sea lettuce.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The waters are covered with zostera; and in the midst of a very extensive bank of weeds, we distinguish a free and circular spot of three feet in diameter, on which float a few scattered masses of Ulva lactuca.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Page 288 middle of March, and then wherever they appear, we may plant peas and beans in the open grounds, (vitia sativa) French beans (phaccolus) sow raddishes, (raphanus) lettuce, (lactuca) onions, (cepa) pastinaca, daucus, and almost every kind of exculent garden seeds, without fear or danger from frosts; for although we have sometimes frosts after their first appearance for a night or two yet not so severe as to injure the young plants.
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Other Philippine seaweeds used as medicine include Gracilaria lichenoides and Ulva lactuca (Nuqui,
Chapter 7 1991
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