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238. CICHOKIUM. 



1. C. Intylus, stem 2 or 3 feet high, rough, very tough ; leaves 

 runcinate ; flowers large, bright blue, in pairs, both sessile. 

 Wild Succory. 



Hal. " Fields by the Tweed opposite Spring Gardens," 

 Thorap., not now to be found there. Holywell-haugh 

 at New Ladykirk, Mr W. Baird. (It was in this field 

 that Edward I. met the Scottish nobility, to settle the 

 dispute betwixt Baliol and Bruce, relative to the crown 

 of Scotland.) July, Aug. I/. 



In France the young leaves are used in salads; and the 

 shoots from the root, blanched by being forced in a dark 

 cellar, are much relished as a winter salad, under the 

 name of Barbe de Capucin. The dried roots afford a pow- 

 der, which Dr HOWISON thinks preferable to that of cof- 

 fee ; and Dr DUNCAN is of opinion, that the plant might 

 be cultivated with great national advantages, as a substi- 

 tute for that exotic berry. On the continent, Succory is 

 cultivated to some extent for the use of milch cows, which, 

 when fed on it, are said to yield generally about a third 

 more milk than when on ordinary fodder ; and it is also 

 accounted excellent for promoting the production of but- 

 ter See NEILL'S Hort. Tour. 



239. ARCTIUM. 



1. A. Lappa, leaves stalked, heart-shaped, wavy, without 

 prickles ; calyx, when in seed, nearly smooth. Common Burdock. 



Hab. Waste grounds. July, Aug. $ 



2. A. Bardana, leaves stalked, heart-shaped, nearly entire and 

 even, without prickles ; calyx, when in seed, cottony. Wooly- 

 headed Burdock. 



Hab. Waste grounds, more common, I think, than the 

 preceding. July, Aug. $ 



The common people occasionally take a decoction of the 

 roots of Burdock, in herpetic eruptions, and with success. 

 It might be employed as a substitute for sarsaparilla. Sir 

 R. WALPOLE has praised it much as a remedy in gout. 



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