Historia plantarum

Nardus Italica, or Nardus mas: to the Italians, Spigo: to the French, Aspic.

A detailed botanical woodcut of Nardus Italica (a species of lavender or spikenard). The illustration shows several vertical, leafy stems emerging from a central base, ending in elongated, spike-like flower heads. The root system at the bottom is depicted as a cluster of fibrous, branching roots.

It grows in the mountains and in rocky places.

It warms and dries in the second degree completed, or the beginning of the third, with powers not far removed from the Nards.