Historia plantarum

Acorum: to the Greeks, akoron: to the Arabs, Vage or Vgi: to the physicians and apothecaries, though falsely, Calamus odoratus sweet flag.

A botanical woodcut shows an Acorum (Sweet Flag) plant with a thick, scaly, horizontal rhizome and a dense cluster of tall, sword-like leaves.

Location according to Apuleius.

It grows in cultivated lands, meadows, and gardens.

Qualities.

Galen, book 6, simple medicines.

Acre in taste, moderately bitter, and not unpleasant in odor: from which it is established that it is of a hot faculty and a thin consistency.