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A History of the County of Somerset
… L.) and live for several years as grubs, eating the roots and underground shoots of plants, and thus destroy much … the grubs cause even greater damage by eating the grass-roots in pasture land, as well as those of mangold, potato … at light near Taunton, where several pup have been dug at roots of elms. Dr. Walter reports it from Stoke Neuria …