432 192. Tragop. 39. COMPOSITE, A. Pi. ex. cat. 



2. Tragopogon porrifolium. Leek-leaved goats-heard. 



Stem and Leaves stiff, bald ; peduncles thickened above ; 

 pericline longer than the flowers in the circumference. 



Tragopogon purpureum, Rati Syn. 171, 2; Ger. em. 7S5, 1 ; Park. 412. 

 Tragopogon porrifolium, Lin. S. P. 1110. 

 Artifi. Salsafie. Purple goats-beard. 



Fields, also cultivated ; biennial ; May and June. 



Stem 4 feet high ; leaves scarcely waved ; scales of the 

 pericline nearly twice as long as the flowers ; corollcB violet. 

 — Roots sweet, used in salads, or boiled in soups, very nu- 

 tritive ; useful in atrophy, coughs, short breath, difficulty 

 of urine, and the stone. 



XVIII. 195. CICHORIUM. Theophrastus. Succory. 

 BractecE 5, short, oblong, adpressed; pericline cylindri- 

 cal ; scales 8, connate at bottom, becoming reflexed ; cli- 

 nantlius naked or slightly hairy ; akenium. compressed, 

 streaked; pappus chaffy; chaiFs many, in a double series, 

 much shorter than the akenia. 



I. CichoTium sylvestre. Wild succory. 



Leaves runcinate, main rib rather hirsute; calathides 



sessile, axillary, in pairs. 



Cichorium sylvestre. Rail Syn. 172, 1 ; Ger. em. 284, 1 ; Park. 776. 

 Cichorium Intybus, Lin. S. P. 1142. 

 Cichorium perenne, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 133. 



Edges of fields; perennial; July and August. 

 Root fleshy ; stem upright, angular, branched ; calathides 

 many, sessile ; corollcB blue or white. 



&. glolosum. Branches balled. 



*/■ 2. Cichorium sativum. Cultivated succory. 



Leaves oblong, toothed, bald ; peduncles axillary, in pairs; 



one long, 1 -flowered; the other very short, 3 or 4-flowered. 



Intybus sativa, Ger. em. 282, 3. 

 Cicljoreuin sativum, Park. 774. 

 Cichorium Endivia, Lin. S. P. 1143. 

 Endive. 



Cultivated ; biennial ; July and August. 

 Leaves toothed at the edge. — Blanched herb eaten in 

 salads, bitter. 



^. a'lspum. Leaves curled at the edge. 



