Pantagʹruelʹion Herb (The)

Hemp; so called “because Pantagruel was the inventor of a certain use which it serves for, exceeding hateful to felons, unto whom it is more hurtful than strangle-weed to flax.”

“The figure and shape of the leaves are not much different from those of the ash-tree or the agrimony, the herb itself being so like the Eupatoʹrio that many herbalists have called it the ‘Domestic Eupatorio,ʹ and the Eupatorio the ‘Wild Pantagruelion.ʹ”—Rabelais: Pantagruel, iii. 49.