Specimen
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Aschlepias
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Swaluwortel
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Vincetoxicum hirundinaria Medik.
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Witte engbloem (NL),
Swallow root,
Swallow-wort
(UK), Asclepias, Hirundinaria (Gr, Lat), Swaluwortel (ND).
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Notes: Dodonaeus wrote: 'op rouwe hooghe sandachtighe gheberchten ende op steenachtighe plaetse / ende wordt in Duytschlant vele geheuonden / sonderlinghe in Schwartzwaldt ende in Waszgauw (on rough high mountains of sandstone and other stony places / much found in Germany / especially in the Swartzwald and in ???). The root was used to treat internal parasites and the leaves against swellings and chapped nipples. |