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Nettle - acanthus mollis for acanthus
syriacus - Job 30
The acanthus is believed by some scholars to be the plant called nettles
in some places in the Bible. At any rate, the acanthus plant is the origin
of the leaf design used by the Greeks in the capitals of Corinthian columns.