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Show WILD SUCCORY. up, are eatable, and when dried will make bread. Roman poet: Thus the - ————-Me pascunt olive, Me cichorea, levesque malvx. Hor. Lib. I, Od. 31. MEDICAL VIRTUE. The virtues of the succory, like those of the dandel ion, reside in its milky juice; andin many of the plants of this natural tribe a juice of a similar nature is to be found: therefore what is observed of the effects of the taraxacum applie s also to the cichorium: ‘and we are warrantedin asserting,”’ says Dr.Wood. ville, ‘‘that the expressed juice of both these plants, taken in large doses, frequently repeated, has been found an efficacious remedy in consumption, as well as jaundice, and othervisceral obstructions,” WILD SUCCORY. CICHORIUM INTYBUS. Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order I. Polygamia equalis. Essent. Gen. Cuar, Receptacle somewhat chaffy: Calyx invested with scales: Seeds crowned with numerous short teeth. Flowers in pairs, axillary, nearlysessile: Leaves runcinate, Spec. Cuar, a DESCRIPTION, Tas beautiful plant rises three or four feet high. Leaves nue merous, pinnatifid, cut into irregular teeth like the dandelion, alternate, somewhat hairy, sessile. Flowers compoun d, large, blue. Corolla ligulate, cut into five teeth at the extremities. HISTORY. Native of Britain; common about the borders of corn-fields ; and flowers in July and August. The leaves, when blanched, are eaten early in the spring in sallads. hess by cultivation. They lose their bitter- The roots, gathered before the stemshoots |