The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1926
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As regards those plants which were specially beloved and venerated by the Greeks, there is not very much to say. Moly seems to have been _Allium moly_, one of the onion or garlic family. It is not very remarkable in any way. Amaranth was apparently the garden Love-lies-bleeding, called in France Queue-de-Renard and Discipline-de-Religieuse. The Asphodel which covered the Elysian fields seems to be _Asphodelus ramosus_.[154] This grows in quantities in Apulia, and is said to afford good nourishment for sheep.