The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 1937
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The other species (_Sambucus ebulus_, or Danewort) has had its name explained as follows by Sir J. E. Smith: "Our ancestors evinced a just hatred of their brutal enemies the Danes in supposing the nauseous, fetid, and noxious plant before us to have sprung from their blood."