Historia plantarum

Nardus Celtica Celtic nard: to the Greeks, νάρδος κελτική nardos keltikē: to the Italians, Nardo Celtico: to the French, Nardus Gaulois.

A woodcut illustration of the Nardus Celtica plant. It depicts a thick, horizontal, scaly rhizome with fibrous roots extending downwards. From the end of the rhizome, a cluster of several elongated, smooth-edged leaves grows upwards in a rosette. A single, tall, slender stalk emerges from the center of the leaves, topped with a branched inflorescence of small flowers.

Dioscorides, book 1, chapter 7.

It grows in the Alps of Liguria and among the Norici ancient inhabitants of the Eastern Alps.

Galen, book 8, simple medicines.

It is weaker than the other Nards for all things except for provoking urine: for it is warmer than those but it astringes less.