545 
which arc 
y 
o 
7 fhort, and furaiflied 
\ 
hera? 
hicfr 
yim 
of 
tube of the length of the corolla, and five toothed 
form a < 
a germen 
than the amina, and terminated by a iimple, oblong, notched ftigma 
ovate form, which fupports a flender flyle, longer 
fe 
i 
are 
t> 
g 
feffile feathery pappus : the recept 
obicurely quadrangular, and furnifhed with 
AugUU a 
d September 
briftlj 
a 
It flow 
Artichok 
a 
of the fouthern parts of 
cultivated here by Turner j a and as a culinary 
nioft kitchen gardens. 
was 
e 
Th 
the fcal 
ecet 
or bottoms of the he 
a 
S 
J 
a. 
C 
fually 
) 
and though thought by Gal 
d the flefliy part of 
bile and melancholy, are wholefome and nutritious. The Arabians 
noticed their diuretic qualities, and therefore deemed them ufeful to 
carry off morbid matter by the kidneys. b 
The leaves are bitter, and afford by expreflion a confiderable quan- 
tity of juice, which when flrained and mixed with an equal part of 
hite wine, has been 
fuccefsfully in drop 
> 
for this purpofe 
two or three fpoonfuls^of the mixture are to be taken night and 
morning. An infufion of the leaves are likewife diuretic, and may 
be employed with the fame intention. 
b 
a Antecedent to the year 1551. 
See Sebizius de Aliment, facult. p. 346* 
x - 
Vide Journal granger, and Aafkow in Aft* Soc. Med, Havniem. vol u p. 201* 
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