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Show Much-Traveled Mullein The common mullein plant of our fields, usually referred to as "only a weed." is really a foreigner and centuries cen-turies ago was used by the Romans, who dipped Its dried stalk In suet to burn for candle light In their processions. proces-sions. The Greeks soaked its leaves In oil to use as wicks in their graceful lamps. It Is said, too, that Spaniards in ancient times used the seeds of the plant for stupefying fish. So It seems that mullein Is a plant globe-trotter. |