VIPER’S GRASS / Scorzonera humilis

The common name shows that this would be a herb with which to treat snakebite. See Gerard, for example: “It is reported by those of great judgement, that Viper’s-grasse is most excellent against the infections of the plague, and all poysons of venomous beasts, and especially to cure the bitings of vipers, if the juyce or herbe be drunke…”.