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ANAGYRIS

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STINKING BEAN-TREFOIL. See Botany Index.

ANACYRIS, or ANAGYRUS, in Ancient Geography, the name of a place in Attica, of the tribe Erechtheis, where a fetid plant, called Anagyris, probably the same with the foregoing, grew in great plenty, (Diodorus, Pliny, Stephanus); and the more it was handled, the stronger it smelled; hence commovere anagyrim or (anagyrum), is to bring a misfortune on one's self, (Aristophanes).