CLXXI. 

 CICHORIUM INTYBUS. 



Wild Succory. 



Class XIX. Syngenesia.— Order I. Polygamia ^Equalis. 

 Nat. Ord. Composite. 



Gen. Char. Involucre of eight scales, surrounded by 

 five smaller ones at the base. Receptacle naked, or 

 slightly hairy. Pappus sessile, scaly, shorter than the 

 fruit. 



Spec. Char. Flowers sessile, axillary, in pairs. Leaves 

 runcinate. 



SYNONYMES.. 

 Greek .... ki%u£v ; xi^u^iov ; <rtpts truths. 



( Cichorium sylvestre. Bauh. Pin. 125. Ger. Em. 284. Park. 



Theatr. 776. Rati. Syn. 172. 

 J Intubus sylvestris. Cam. Epit. 285. 

 ' Seris sylvestris. Lob. obs. 114. 

 Cichorium Intybus. Lin. Sp. PI. 1142. Eng. Fl. iii. p. 379. 

 Eng. Bot. t. 539. 

 French. .. Chicoree ; Chicoree sauvage. 

 Italian .... Cicorea ; Radicchio. 

 Spanish . . . Achicoria ; Chicoria. 

 German. . . Cichorie ; Wegewart ; Hinlloeuftwurzel. 

 Dutch .... Cicorey ; Wilde Cicorey ; Suikerey. 

 Danish .... Vcegvartrod. 

 Swedish. .. Woegwarda. 

 Polish .... Podrosznik. 

 lluss . .... Zikorija. 



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Description. — The root is perennial, long, fusiform, some- 

 what branched, fleshy and contains a milky juice. The stem is 

 erect, firm, tough, wand-like, angular above, bristly, and varies 

 in height from sixteen inches to three feet. The radical leaves 

 are numerous, spreading, long,petiolate, runcinate, rather rough ; 

 the cauline ones are smoother, gradually smaller, sessile, semi- 

 amplexicaul, lanceolate, toothed only towards the base, fringed 

 with bristly aristate hairs. The flowers are large, handsome, on 

 very short peduncles, generally two or three together in the axils 

 of the upper leaves of the stem and branches. The involucre 



