lo8o Of the Hiftorie of Plants. L i b.z. 
tranflating of Garcias the Lufitanian Phyfitian, he fetteth it forthwith a light defeription, faying, 
It is a bate and low herbe two handfulls high , bringing forth leaues without any ftalkes at all, 
4 very hairy about the root, and b lack ifh, hauing no pleafant fent at all. The leaues chewed yeeld 
no aromaticke tafte,but are clammie, or vifeide; whereas the leaues of Celticke Nardeare hot, 
with a little aftriftion, and of a pleafant fmell and tafte. $ 
4 Mountaine Spikenard hath a great thicke knobbed root, fet here and there with fome ten- 
der fibres, of a pleafant fiveet fmel* from the which come forth three or foure ftnooth broad leaues, 
and likewife iagged leaues deepely cut euen to the middle rib : among which rife vp naked (talks, 
garnifhed in thcmiddle with a tuft of iagged leaues. The floures grow at the top of theftalks,in 
anvmbelortuftlikethofeof the wilde Valerian in (hape and colour, and fuchalfo is the feed. 4 1 
haue giuen you the figure of the root and whole leaues as they fhew themfelues when they firft ap- 
peare, as it was taken by Clufiuc. | 
5 7 tjjirdiis Indica. 
Indian Spikenard. 
6 Nardns Narbonenfis. 
French Spikenard. 
5 The Spikenard of India is a low plant, growing clofe vnto the ground, compofed of many 
rough browne hairy cloues, of a flrong, yet not vnpleafant fmell. The root is final! and threddie. 
t It hath certainly ftalkes, floures, and feeds ; but none of our Indian Writers or Trauellers haue 
as yet deferibed them. I haue feene little pieces of {lender hollow ftalkes fome two inches long 
faftned to the roots that are brought to vs. t 
t 6 This French Spikenard, being a baftard kinde, groweth clofe vpon the ground like the 
precedent, compact of fcaly rough leaues : in the middle whereof commeth forth a great bufh of 
round greene ftiffe and rufhy leaues : among the which fhoot vp diuers round ftalkes a cubit high, 
fet from the middle to the top with greenifh little cods, {landing in chaffie huskes like thole of 
Schoenanth . The root is fmall and threddy : the whole plant is altogether without fmell , which 
iheweth it to bea baftard kinde of Spikenard. 
f The Place. 
Thefe plants [the firft foure] are ftrangers in Eng!and,growing in great plentie vpon the rnoun- 
taincs of Iudenberg and Heluetia,on the rockes among the moffe, and in the mountains ofTiroll 
and Saltzburg. 
The firft and fecond,ifmy memorie faile me not, do grow in a field in the North part of Eng- 
land 
