The Ufeful Family Herbal. 135 
ENDIVE. 
' ENDIVIA. 
A Common Garden Plant kept for Sallets. It 
“™ grows two Feet high, and the Flowers are 
blue, but we fee it a thoufand Times with only 
the Leaves for once in Flower; and thefe the 
Gardeners have the Art of twifting, and curling, 
and whitening in fuch a Manner, that they are 
fcarce to be known, as belonging to the Plant. 
Naturally they are long and narrow, blunt at the 
End, and deeply notched at the Edges, and of a 
yellowifh green Colour; the Stalks are round and 
firm, and the Leaves that grow on them, are like 
thofe from the Root, but fmaller: The Flowers 
ftand at the Tops of the Stalks and Branches, they 
are blue, and in Shape and Struéture like thofe of 
Dandelion: They are very beautiful. = 
_ The Juice of Endive may be taken with great 
Advantages as Medicine; it cools the Stomach, 
and operates by Urine very powerfully; it alfo 
Opens Objtructions of the Vifcera. It is good a- 
Loin the Jaundice, and conftantly taken for 
me Time, againft the Scurvy. ine 
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Eryneo. : ) 
ERYNGIUM. 
Wild Plant, which grows with us by the Sea 
~~ Side, and is kept alfoin Gardens, becaufe of 
its Virwes. It is prickly like a Thiftle, and the 
_ Whole Plant appears. not green, but whitith. The 
Stalk is firm, woody, round, niee, an lee 
hot very upright, ched, an read irre- — 
gularty Page te Leaves are fmal and of a 
Pale blujth Green, approaching to White; they = 
