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stem is upright, rigid, straggling, branched. Leaves runcinate. 

 Flowers two together, without stalks, upon and at the joints of 

 the steins. 



This is one of England's fairest gems for the flowers are 

 of the brightest, clearest, purest blue, too delicate to last. 

 The azure blue color in all flowers is generally fleeting thus 

 in a collection of dried plants the blue ones are most liable to 

 lose their color. The Succory is particularly of this character. 

 The flowers are among those which sleep for certain hours. 

 They will be found open as early as sun-rise : 



" On upland slopes, the shepherd's mark 



The hour, when as the dial true, 

 Chicorium to the towei'ing lark 

 Lifts her soft eyes serenely blue." 



This plant is interesting too for its uses. Its leaves when 

 young taste like the garden Endive, which is but another 

 species of Succory, and for the sake of these, as a salad, the 

 plant is often cultivated in France and Germany. The roots 

 are the well-known substance, called Chicory, and which has 

 been used of late years to mix with coffee, to add flavor and 

 color to it. When made for the table, a small quantity is an 

 improvement, but too much of it is disagreeable, as it then 

 makes it taste like Spanish liquorice. This powdered Succory 

 or Chicory, is made by washing and drying, and afterwards 

 grinding the roots to powder. 



BURR. BURDOCK. ARCT1UM. 



COMMON BURDOCK. Arctium lappa. 



Plate 12, fig. 13. 



A large, bushy, branched, and coarse plant of the hedges, 

 the river banks, and way- sides, three or four feet in height, 

 flowering in July. The leaves are heart-shaped, stalked, larger 

 than upon any other British plant, and are well-known under 

 the name of Water-dock leaves, though not at all like any of 

 the Dock tribe. Their size and shape are alluded to in the 

 " Butterfly's Ball" 



*' A Mushroom the table, and on it was spread 

 A Water-dock leaf, which the table cloth made " 



The flowers are like thistle heads, and the calyx, which 

 covers the flowers and afterwards incloses the seeds, is of many 



