Essays · Character
Pliny
Roman naturalist; author of Natural History.
minor
First appearance: natural history of massachusetts
Pliny shows up with force in The Scarlet Oak. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Mentioned in comparison of the Morea's form to a plane-tree leaf.
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