Spineless butcher's broom or horse tongue lily, Ruscus hypoglossum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568.

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