48 A COMPENDIUM OF 
Tous; pappus made up of short chaffy scales, 
forming a sort of crown. The root is fusiform, 
not unlike the dandelion in form and size, and 
isused as an adulterant for that root. The 
principal use of the root of the chicory is to 
adulterate, or as a substitute for, coffee. Its 
use, it is said, first began with the Egyptians 
and Arabians; they also use the leaves as a 
salad. In France, the consumption is said to 
reach sixteen million pounds per annum. Chic- 
ory is tonic, aperient and deobstruent, and may 
be given like taraxacum, and for the same dis- 
eases. There is no officinal preparation of it. 
For further information see United States Dis- 
pensatory. 
Euphorbia Corollata,—Natural order Eu- 
phorbiacee. Common names, 
Spurge, Blooming Spurge, Wandering Milk- 
weed, Indian Physic, 
Spurge, etc. The name Euphorbia is said to be 
derived from Euphorbus, the physician to 
King Juba. This plant is a smooth herba- 
» having many stems aris- 
ular root; flowers not 
ng in the spring of the 
blong sessile. Ipecac- 
uanha Spurge as found in commerce is knotty, 
