<p style='text-align: justify;'>Passage from the materia medica of Ibn Bayṭār, al-Jamīʿ al-Mufradāt (ed. Būlāq 1874, III:39) dealing with the uses of the plant Stachys. Dioscorides is mentioned as a source of knowledge and his name, together with the section heading, is rubricated.</p>