Dioscorides’s bruonia melaina is Bryonia alba, not Tamus communis, and an illustration labeled bruonia melaina in the Codex Vindobonensis is Humulus lupulus not Bryonia dioica1 S.S. Renner1*, J. Scarborough2, H. Schaef

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• B. alba
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