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SU.CrC ORY, 
Gila GaeH (OR SE Uk 
HE flower is compofed of numerous flofcules, ranged in a common cup; which, before it 
opens, is of a cylindric figure. Thirteen fcales or leaves form it; and of thofe cight are nar- 
row and oblong: thefe ftand inward, and form the cylindric part. The other five are broader, fhorters 
and placed outward. Each flofcule is flat, and deeply indented in five places at the edge. 
have no downy matter annexed to them. 
1. Wild Succory. 
Cichoreum fylveftre. 
The root is long and flender. 
The ftalks are thick, of a deep green, two 
feet high, but very irregular in their growth, fre- 
quently branched, and placed obliquely rather 
than upright. 7 
The leaves are long, moderately broad, of a 
fine green, and deeply divided into toothed feg- 
ments. 
The flowers are large and blue: they ftick to 
the ftalks at the infertions of the leaves, and 
fometimes alfo terminate the branches, 
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The feeds 
Tt is common in wafte places, and flowers in 
Auguft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Cichorenm fylugfre vel offici= 
naruin. 
The garden-fuccory differs in nothing from it but 
culture. 
It poffefles the virtues of dandelion, but ina 
more powerful degree, operating flrongly by 
urine, and removing obftruétions of the vif- 
cera. : 
The beft method of taking it is in a ftrong in+ 
fufion of the frefh-gathered root. 
VIII. 
NIPPLEWORT. 
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Oe HE flower is compofed of about fixteen petals, ‘placed in a common cup 3 which is of ah oval 
form, and angulated, and made of fourteen feales. Eight of thefe conftitute the inner part 5 
and they are long and narrow: fix form the outer part at the bale; and they are fhort. Each flo& 
cule is lightly divided into five parts at the end. 
The feeds have no down. 
Linnzus ranges this, the following and preceding, with the reft, among the /yagene/fia. 
1. Common Nipplewort: 
Lampfana vulgaris. 
The root is long, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, a yard high, of a faint 
green, and divided into many branches, 
The leaves are large, oblong, broad, of a 
dufky green, and lightly and irregularly notched 
near the bafe, efpecially thofe toward the bot- 
tom of the ftalk. 2 
The flowers are very fmall and yellow; but 
they are numerous at the tops of all the 
branches. 
It is common in wafte ground, and flowers in 
July. 
C.Bauihine calls it Soncho affinis lampfana do- 
meftica. 
2. Dwarf Nipplewott, called Swines Succory, 
Lampfana minima, 
The root is long, flender, and hung with a 
few fibres. 
The leaves are numerous and oblong, a little 
notched at the edges, and of a dufky. green, 
The ftalk is naked, and fometimes fingle, 
fometimes divided; of a pale’green, and fix inches 
high. 
The flowers are fimall and yellow; and they 
terminate the ftalks and branches. 
It is found in corn-fields, and flowers in 
June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ay/eris. 
The root of the ‘common nipplewort is recom- 
mended as diuretick and deobftruent ; but it is 
not ufed. 
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