- FO ORD. III. Composite. CYNARA SCOLYMUS, 
of the corolla, and five toothed: a germen of an ovate form, which 
supports a slender style, longer than the stamina, and terminated 
by a simple, oblong, + notched stigma: the seeds are oblong, 
obscurely quadrangular, and furnished with a long sessile feathery 
pappus: the receptacle is bristly. It flowers in August and 
September. 
_ The Artichoke is a native of the southern parts of Europe. It was 
cultivated here by Turner ;* and as a culinary article it is common 
in most kitchen gardens. 
The receptacles, or bottoms of the heads, and the fleshy part of 
the scales are usually eaten, and though thought by Galen to 
generate bile and melancholy, are wholesome and nutritious. The 
Arabians noticed their diuretic qualities, and therefore deemed 
them useful to carry off morbid matter by the kidneys.” 
The leaves are bitter, and afford by expression a considerable 
quantity of juice, which when strained and mixed with an equal 
part of white wine, has been given successfully in dropsies ;* for this 
purpose two or three spoonfuls of the mixture are to be taken 
night and morning. An infusion of the leaves are likewise diuretic, 
and may be employed with the same intention, 
* Antecedent to the year 1551. 
> See Sebizius de Aliment. facult. p. 346. 
é Vide Journal etranger. and Aaskow in Act. Soc. Med. Havniens. vol. i. p. 201. 
a 
CICHORIUM INTYBUS. WILD, or BLUE SUCCORY. 
SYNONYMA. Cichoreum. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 319. Dale. 84. 
Alston: i. 412. Lewis. 227. Edinb. New Disp. 171.. Murray.i 
100. Bergius. 650. Cichorium sylvestre, sive officinarum. Bauh. 
Pin. 126. Gerard. Emac: 284. Park. Theat. 776. Ray. Hist. 
255. C.Intybus. Hudson Flor. Ang. 348. Withering. Bot. Arr. 
862. Curt. Flor. Lond. 241, Smith. Flor. Brit. 843. Flor. 
- Dan. 150, : 
