Status Updates From Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness ...

Great Mullein was the herb that Ulysses used as a protection against Circes enchantment. The flowers were used by the Romans to dye hair yellow. Dipped in wax it was used as a taper.
It was called Clowns lungwort

I am really enjoying this book about the wonder of plants and the natural world. However he does keep quoting Pliny at me.. Whicker is a little over my head
‘Narcissum dictum non a fabuloso puero’