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Ocimum basilicum L.
Engl.: sweet basil, basil.
Deu.: Basilikum, Basilienkraut, Königskraut, Suppenbasil.
Fran.: basilic.
Sven.: basilika.
Suom.: basilika, maustebasilika.
Span.: albahaca.

Pre-Linnaean: Samuel Dale: Pharmacologia, seu manuductio ad materiam medicam.
Ocimum medium citratum, Ger. 547. Emac. 673.
Ocimum vulgatius, C. B. Pin. 226. Raii. Hist. i. 547. Tourn. Inst. 204. Boerb. Ind. A. 170. Rupp. Flor. Jen. 178.
Ocimum vulgare majus, Park. Theat. 18.
Basilicum seu Ocimum medium vulgatius, Hist. Oxon. iii. 406.

Pre-Linnaean: Samuel Dale: Pharmacologia, seu manuductio ad materiam medicam. (as Ocimum caryophyllatum):
Ocimum minimum, C. B. Pin. 226. J. B. iii. 247. Chab. 419. Raii Hist. i 541. Tourn. Inst. 204. Boerb. Ind. A. 170. Hist. Oxon. iii. 407.
Ocimum vulgare minus, Park. Theat. 18.
Ocimum minus caryophyllatum, Ger. 547. Emac. 673.

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Materia Medica of the New Mexican Pharmacopoeia. Part 2.