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ENDIVE.— <C'wAorti«m Endivia.) 



Descnp, — Common garden Endive bears a longer and 

 larger leaf than succory, and abides but one year, quicklj 

 running up to stalk and seed, and then perishing. It has 

 blue flowers, and the seed is so much like that of succory, 

 that it is hard to distinguish it. 



Place. — It is chiefly cultivated in gardens. 



Time. — The first sowing should be in May. 



Oovernment and Virtries. — It is an herb of Jupiter, and 

 is a fine cooling cleansing plant : the decoction of the 

 leaves, or the juice, or tLe distilled water of Endive, 

 serves to cool the excessive heat of the liver and stomach, 

 as also the hot fits of agues, and all other inflammations. 

 It cools the heat and sharoness of the urine, and the ex- 

 coriations into the uritory parts. The seeds have the same 

 properties, though rather more powerful, and besides, are 

 available for faintings, swoonings, and the passions of the 

 heart Outwardly applied, they serve to temper the 

 Bharp humours of fretting ulcers, hot tumours ana swell- 

 ings, and pestilential sores ; they greatly assist not only 

 the redness and inflammation of the eves, but the dimneBS 

 of flight, and also allay the pains of the gout. 



ERINGO, OB SEA B,01AjY .-^ Eryngium Maritimum,) 



Detcrip, — Common Eryngo has pretty large, white, and 

 long roots, which spread much in the earth, and run deep 

 in the same. The leaves are hard, stiff, and veiny, nar- 

 row at bottom, and broad and roundish at the end, with 

 several lacinise terminating in sharp prickles ; the stalk 

 arises not to any great height, being smooth, crested, and 

 channelled ; the leaves on the stalks are less, and rather 

 stiffer, set on without foot-stalks, with prickly edges. At 

 the ends of the branches come forth round, somewhat 



{)rickly, heads, beset with stiff narrow leaves, growing 

 ike a star under them ; the flowers are set in these heads, 

 of a greenish white colour, each in a separate calyx, like 

 the teasel, succeeded by flattish seed. 



Place. — It grows by the sea-side, in many places, in 

 sandy ground. 



Time.— It flowers in June and July. The roots only 

 are used. 



Oovemmeiit and Virtues. — The plant is venereal, and 

 breeds seed exceedingly, and strengthens the spirit pro- 



