CICHORIUM INTYBUS. ORD. III. Composite. 73 
taken in large doses, frequently repeated, has been found an 
efficacious remedy in phthisis pulmonalis, as well as in the various 
other affections above mentioned. 
The seeds of the Cichorium, which are small, angular, and of 
a brown colour, are reckoned among the four smaller cooling seeds. 
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MATRICARIA PARTHENIUM. COMMON FEVERFEW. 
SYNONYMA. Matricaria. Pharm. Geoff. iii. 825. Dale. 97. 
Alston. 41.175. Lewis. 414. Ed. New. Dispens. 227. Murray. 
7. 148. Bergius. 687. Cullen. ii. 364. Matricaria vulgaris sive 
sativa. Bauh. Pin. 133. Gerard. Emac. 652. Park. Theat. 83. 
Ray. Hist. 357. Synop. 187. Hall. Hist. Stirp. Helv. n. 100. 
M. Parthenium. Huds. Flor. Ang. 371. Withering. Bot. Arr. 
931. Ic. Flor. Dan. 192. Pyrethrum Parthenium. Smith Flor. 
Brit. 900. 
Syngenesia. Polygamia Superflua. Lin. Gen. Plant. 967. 
Gen. Ch. Recept. nudum. Pappus nullus. Cal. hemisphzricus, 
imbricatus: marginalibus solidis, acutiusculis. 
Sp. Ch. M. foliis compositis planis: foliolis ovatis incisis, pedun- 
culis ramosis. 
ROOT perennial, composed of numerous long fibres. Stalk erect, 
firm, much branched, striated, round, smooth, rising above two 
- feet in height. Leaves alternate, hairy, pinnated; lobes irregular, 
Micothea, blunt; terminal lobe bifid. Flowers large, compound, 
at the centre yellow, at the radius white, upon long peduncles, 
forming a kind of umbel. Calyx common to all the florets, hemi- 
spherical, and composed of numerous ovate squame, which are 
membranous at the border. Florets at the radius, female, oblong, 
about two lines in breadth, terminated by three small teeth. Stigma 
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