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CICHORIUM INTYBUS. WILD, or BLUE SUCCORY: 
SYNONYMA. Cichoreum. Pharm. Geoff. iti. 319. Dale. 84 
Alfton. i. 412. Lewis. 227. Edinb. New Difp.171. Murray. i. 
ioo. Bergius. 650. Cichorium fylveftre, five officinarum: Baubh, 
Pin, 126. Gerard, Emac. 284. Park. Theat. 776... Ray. Hifts 
255. CsIntybus. Hudfon. Flor. Ang. 348. Withering. Bot. Arrs 
862. Curt. Flor. Lond. 241. 
Syngenefia Polygamia Aqualis. Lin. Ger. Plant. g2ts 
Gen. Ch. Receptaculum fubpaleaceum: Gal. calycuilatus. 
—- Pappus fub-s5-dentatus, : obfolete pilofus. 
Sp. Ch. C. ftoribus geminis feflilibus, foliis runcinatis. | 
ROOT perennial, long, tapering, branched, or fpindle-thaped ; 
externally yellowish, internally white, laCtefcent. Stalk ere€t, roughy 
branched, angular, from one to two or even three feet in height 
Leaves at the root numerous, pinnatifid, or cut into irregular feg- 
ments like thofe of dandelion: on the ftalk they are alternate, feffile, 
fomewhat f{pear-fhaped, but indented and rough at the bafe. Flowers. 
compound, large, blue, commonly in pairs. Calyx common to all 
the florets, compofed of a double fet of leaves, of which the outer 
are in number five, ovate, fpreading, and fringed with glandular 
hairs; the inner fet confifts of about eight. Corolla compofed of 
hermaphrodite florets, which are regular, blue; and about twenty in 
number, each confifting of a fhort white tube, from which arifes'a 
long flat ribbed limb, divided at the extremity into five tecth. Fila-_ 
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