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I SHOULD be much obliged if any of your readers could give me any information as to whether the rhizomes of Stachys palustris, L., are used by the country people either in Great Britain or elsewhere for food. I believe the English name of the plant is Base Horehound, and that in the last century it was so used.
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WENTZ'L, A. Stachys Palustris as Food. Nature 28, 414 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028414g0
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