NAT. ORDER. 



CompositcB. 



CICHORIUM INTYBUS. WILD, OR BLUE SUCCORY. 



Class XIX. Syngenesia. Order T. Polygabiia ^equalis. 



Ge7i. Char. Calyx, calycled. Pappus, slightly five-toothed, ob- 

 scurely hairy, i^ecef'^ac/*?, somewhat chaffy. 



Spe. Char. Flotvers, twin, sessile. Leaves, runcinate. 



The root is perennial, long, tapering, branched, or spindled- 

 shaped, lactescent, externally yellowish, and internally white ; the 

 stalk is erect, rough, branched, angular, and rises from one and a 

 half, to three feet in height ; the leaves at the root are pinnatifid, or 

 cut into irregular segments, like those of the dandelion : on the 

 stalk they are alternate, sessile, somewhat spear-shaped, but indent- 

 ed and rough at the base; xhejlowers are compound, large, blue, and 

 stand in pnirs ; the calyx, which is common to all the florets, is com- 

 po id of a double set of leaves, the outer ones, which are five in 

 number, are ovate, spreading, and fringed with glandular hairs; the 

 inner set consists of about eight; the corolla is composed of herma- 

 phrodite florets, which are regular, blue, and about twenty in num- 

 ber, each consisting of a short white tube, from which rises a long 

 flat ribbed limb, divided at the extremity into five teeth; thejilamcnts 

 are white, slender, and unconnected; the anthe7s are blue, and form 

 a hollow angular cylinder ; the germen is conical, and crowned with 

 short hairs ; the style is filiform ; stigmas are two, rolled back, and 

 blue; the seeds are numerous, naked, angular, and lodged at the 

 bottom of the calyx. 



This jflant belongs to the same family with the garden endive, 

 and by some botanists has been supposed to be the same plant in its 



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