bergen-on-the-rhine

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Although L. stæchas was well known to the ancients, no allusion unquestionably referring to L. vera has been found in the writings of classical authors, the earliest mention of this latter plant being in the twelfth century, by the Abbess Hildegard, who lived near Bergen-on-the-Rhine.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891