Int 



THE SUCCORY. 



Clchorium Intybus. Xat. Orel., Compositcc. 



HE succory, or chicory, is a plant 

 belonging to the same great 

 natural group as the dandelion, 

 the ox-eye, the corn sow-thistle, 

 and the nipplewort. The general 

 , form of the flower, it will readily 

 be noticed, is very similar in all 

 of these. It is the Cickorium 

 of botanical nomenclature. 

 Though the plant is perhaps more 

 commonly known as the succory than 

 the chicory, we never remember to have 

 seen any explanation of this common 

 name; we would therefore venture 

 to suggest a derivation the Latin 

 word succurrere, signifying to run 

 under. Many of our common names 

 have descended to us either from the monks or 

 other herbalists of the Middle Ages ; the terms 

 used, therefore, are generally either corruptions of the old 

 Latin names or terms based on some old English word, 

 and in either case the allusion is often either to the actual 

 properties of the plant or else to the peculiarity of growth 

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