Selagon.
/sɪˈleɪɡəʊ/ Botany.
†(a) The club-moss Lycopodium Selago (obsolete). (b) A Linnæan genus of South African herbs or undershrubs.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxiv. xi. 193 Much like unto this hearbe Savine, is that which they call Selago.]
a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) iii. iii. 1319 Heer's Pannax too... and Selago, Hedge Hisop too.
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