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For its use in confections this will suffice from the "Apparatus Plantarum" of Laurembergius, 1632: "In re familiari vix ullus est telluris habitatus angulus ubi non sit Croci quotodiana usurpatio, aspersi vel incocti cibis."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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