432 192. Tragop. 39. COMPOSITE, A. PLex.citL 
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, Raii Syn. 171, 2; Ger. em. 735, 1 ; Park. 412. 
Tragopogon porrifolium, Lin . S. P. 1110. 
Artiji. 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 ; corollce 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. 193. CICHORIUM. Theophrastus. Succory . 
Bractece 5, short, oblong, adpressed; pericline cylindri- 
cal ; scales 8, connate at bottom, becoming reflexed ; cli- 
nanthus naked or slightly hairy ; akenium compressed, 
streaked ; pappus chaffy ; chaffs many, in a double series* 
much shorter than the akenia. 
1. Cichorium sylvesire. Wild succory. 
Leaves runcinate, main rib rather hirsute ; calathides 
sessile, axillary, in pairs. 
Cichorium sylvesire, Raii 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; stern upright, angular, branched; calathides 
many, sessile; corollce blue or white. 
|3. glohosum. 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 saliva, Ger. em. 282, 3. 
Cichoreum sativum, Park. 7 74. 
Cichorium Endivia, Lin. S. P. 1143. 
Endive. 
Cultivated ; biennial ; July and August. 
Leaves toothed at the edge. — Blanched herb eaten in 
salads, bitter. 
j3. crispum. Leaves curled at the edge. 
