TU Ufeful Family Herbal. 135 



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ENDIVIA. 



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 curlin 

 and whitening in fuch a Manner, that they are 

 fcarce to be known, as belonging to the Plant. 



Naturally they are lon^ and narrow, blunt at the 

 End, and deeply notched at the Edges, and of a 

 yellowilh green Colour i 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 Stru6lure like thofe of 

 Dandelion : They are very beautiful. 



The Juice of Endive may be taken with great 

 Advantages as Medicine i it cools the Stomach, 

 and operates by Urine Very powerfully ; it alfo. 

 opens Obllruftions of the Vifcera. It is good ar 

 gainft the Jaundice, and conftantly taken f(M" 

 iome Time, againft the Scurvy. 



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ERYNGIUM. 



vVlld Plant, which grows with us by the Sea 

 Side, and is kept alio in Gardens, becaufe of 

 its "Virtues. It is prickly like a Thiflle, and the 

 whole Plant appears not green, but whitifli. The 

 Stalk is firm, woody, round, flriated, and thick, 

 not very upright, branched, and fpread irre- 

 gularly about. The Leaves are fmall, and of a 

 pale bluifh Green, approaching to White j they 



