Description. This riseth up with a square great stalk full of joints, two feet high, or thereabouts, with two leaves at every joint, and the branches likewise from both sides of the stalk, set with fresh green leaves, somewhat broad and long, about the bigness of the leaves of basil, finely dented about the edges; towards the tops of the stalks and branches, come forth at every joint in the male mercury two small, round green heads, standing together upon a short footstalk, which growing ripe, are seeds, not having flowers. The female stalk is longer spike fashion, set round about with small green husks which are the flowers, made like small bunches of grapes which give no seed, but abide long upon the stalks without shedding. The root is composed of many small fibres, which perisheth every year at the first approach of winter, and riseth again of his own sowing: and if once it is suffered to sow itself, the ground will never want afterwards, even both sorts of it.