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fertilidon

fertilidon [? Ar. sfṭāḷyūn, misr. of’sqṭāḷyūn < σκυτάλιον] , navel-wort (Cotyledon umbilicus). est alia planta que dicitur fertilidon, cujus proprietas est generare odium [cf. Arabic text, tr. 265n: ‘there is a herb called Fotolidun; it produces love’; perh. fotolidun is misr. of κοτυληδών, and fertilidon misr. of fotolidun] Bacon V 122.

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