ij 
\ 
plants, by tlie outer calyces being bent downwards, and by tlie flowey 
ftalk, which is fimple, coloured, fhining, and ^unijEoral ; the leaves 
are all radical and cut in a peculiar^^ way, forming a good example 
proaching to ma 
The feeds 
d with a fine downy feather, difpofed in a 
of what botanifts 
turity, become 
fpherical ihape. The root is pere 
with the whole plant abounds v/ith a milky j 
and fpindle-lhaped, which 
The young leaves of this 
in a blanched flate have the 
tafte of endive, and make an excellent add 
to thofe 
eaten 
in the fpring as fall 
a 
At Gottingen the roots are 
inhab 
\ 
roafted and fubflituted for coffee by the poorer 
find that an infufion prepared in this way can hardly b 
; who 
diflin. 
1 
fhed from that of the coffe 
Dandel 
berry 
active and effi 
generally confidered by medical writers as the moll 
of the ladefcent pi 
3 
the expreffed j 
^ 
bitter and fomewhat acrid, the root however is flill bitterer ', 
pofFeiTes more medicinal power than any other part of the pi 
and 
Taraxacum has been Ion 
epute as a mild det 
d 
ape 
rient, and its diuretic effeds may be inferred from the vulg 
it bears in moil of the European languages, quafi leftiminga 
uri- 
^ 
nana 
hum( 
fan at 
ba diciti 
flirps fol 
,. d 
■^ 
Murray fays, Vifcidos nimirum 
fq 
et obflru£la vafa refer 
eruptionem variam 
and Bergius recommends its ufe in obftrudiions of the 
hypochondriafis, and j 
difeafes is co 
afirmed bv his 
Its fuccefsful ufe in the firft of thefe 
__ F 
experienced De Haen alfo gives 
another inflance of the fame compl 
d by the fame 
b 
WIthering's Bot. Arrang. p. 839. 
d 
Murray's Apparat. p. 107. . . 
^ Haller's Strip. Hd. n. 58. 
plus lotii derivat in veficam quam pueruli retinendo funt^ pr^fertim inter dor- 
miendum, eoque tunc imprudentes et inviti ftragula permingunt. Ray's Hift, Pl» 
p. 244. ' 
^ Murray, L c. . . 
^ In hepatis morbis, pr^ftantiffima eft radix haec recens, fero laflis, jufculis et apoze- 
matibus inco6la. Pra^clara identidem inde vidi, ubi alia fefellerunt. Sa^pe mihi fuc- 
ceffit refolvere 
Taraxaci 
acetofae, in fero ladis codisj vel in aqua, addito vitello ovi, quod jufculum quotidie 
per plures feptimanas, immo menfes, fumpferunt aegroti, propinato fimul cremore tar- 
tari. Hoc regimen exoptata prseftitit etiani in calculo felleo et in afcitide. M 
torn. 2, p. 649. 
M 
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