Of Diers weede.
The description (la descripción).
Diers weede hath long, narrow, and blackish leaues, not much vnlike to Woade, but a great deale smaller and narrower: from among which commeth vp a stalke two cubits high, beset with little narrow leaues: amōg which leaues euen to the toppe of the stalke come foorth small pale yellow flowers, closely clustering togither one aboue another, which do turne into small buttons, cut as it were crossewise, wherein the seede is conteined. The roote is very long and single.
The place (el lugar).
Diers weede groweth of it selfe in moist, barren, and vntilled places, in and about villages almost euery where.
The time (la época).
This herbe flourisheth in Iune and Iuly.
The names (los nombres).
Pliny in his 33. booke cap. 5. maketh mention by the waie of this herb, and calleth it Lutea: Vitruuius in his 7. booke Lutum: and likewise Virgil in his Bucolickes, the fourth Egloge: in English Welde and Diers weede.
The temperature (el temperamento).
It is hot and drie of temperature.
Texto en la ortografía original de Gerard, en inglés de 1597 (la s larga se imprime como s), transcrito por la Source Library (CC BY-SA 4.0). Un capítulo puede continuar en páginas aún no transcritas. Gerard escribía dentro de la medicina galénica; nada de esto es un consejo.